ATLANTA (AP)- A state official places damage from thunderstorms
that raced into Georgia from the west at $15 million.

Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine earlier estimated insured
losses to 1,000 homes in yesterday's storms across north Georgia at
$10 million. But after surveying the damage Wednesday, Oxendine
says "the destruction around Carrollton and Bowdon was more
extensive than first reported.''

He said about 1,300 Georgia homes have some type of damage "from broken windows to total losses in some cases.''

Two tornadoes touched down in Carroll County. Officials said the
first, an EF3, hit the Smithfield area, just inside the Alabama state line, and left a path eight miles long and 100 yards wide with winds estimated at 140 miles per hour. The second tornado was smaller, with winds of 90 miles per hour and a swath two miles long.

The county's fire-rescue chief, Gary Thomas, says that despite
major damage, the county had only three injuries -- two requiring
hospitalization and one minor injury.