1936 Gainesville Tornado
| 1936 Gainesville Tornado A Time to Mourn, Gainesville, Georgia is destroyed by a rare double tornado early in the morning of Aptil 6, 1936 |
1998 North Atlanta Tornado Outbreak
| 1998 North Atlanta Tornado Outbreak On the evening of April 8, 1998, tornadoes struck the northern perimeter of Atlanta, Georgia. Storms were category F2 and destroyed a Waffle House and damaged an auto dealer in Cobb County |
2008 Atlanta Tornado
| 2008 Atlanta Tornado Destructive tornado strikes Atlanta, Georgia in March, 2008, while two basketball games with more than 100,000 fans are in progress. |
Ice Jam 2000
| Ice Jam 2000 Freezing temperatures and precipitation wrecked havoc on two January weekends in 2000. The second weekend Atlanta was hosting the Superbowl |
National Weather Service
| National Weather Service From a brick building near the Peachtree City airport the National Weather Service issues watches and warnings for a 96 county area including most of North Georgia. |
North Georgia Droughts
| North Georgia Droughts A look at droughts suffered through by the Peach State, especially those with the greatest impact on North Georgia. |
Palm Sunday Killer Tornados
| Palm Sunday Killer Tornados One of the most destructive systems to hit Georgia in the 1990's, the wide path of the storms cut a swath from Bartow County in the northwest to Rabun County in the northeast |
Tornado Quiz
| Tornado Quiz Test your TQ (Tornado Quotient) with our Tornado Quiz |
Other pages of interest on About North Georgia Voices from the Past |
FDR's Brother's Keeper Speech
| FDR's Brother's Keeper Speech Remarks made by FDR in Gainesville, Georgia, on March 23, 1938 about the cleanup efforts from the Gainesville Tornado (1936). |
FDR in Gainesville, 1936
| FDR in Gainesville, 1936 Shortly after the devastating Gainesville on April 6, 1936, FDR's train pulled into the station and he spoke to workers who paused during cleanup. |