The tornado watch for Hall County was cancelled late this afternoon. Various watches continued to be in effect for some Northeast Georgia counties, where the entire region had been expected to remain under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. The strong storms brought almost 1.5 inches of rainfall to Gainesville recorded in just one hour between 2:53 p.m. and 3:53 p.m. at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport according to the National Weather Service. Earlier, one person was killed in an Adairsville storm in northwest Georgia, according to the Bartow County fire chief.
Tornado watch canceled for Hall; heavy rainfall recorded
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