ATLANTA -- Authorities have identified two people killed as tornadoes tore through Georgia.

Laurens County Coroner Richard Stanley III identified the man who died there as Tracey Clements, who was in his 40s. His wife was taken to the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon in critical condition. Their two grandchildren were treated for minor injuries and released yesterday.

The second death occurred in metro Atlanta later Sunday afternoon, where the Gwinnett County Fire Department said a 19-year-old woman died after the top of a tree snapped in gusty winds and fell on her.

Fire Department spokesman Captain Thomas Rutledge says the woman was dead at the scene when firefighters arrived at the Chatelaine Park Apartments in Duluth at 4:47 p.m. yesterday. Ted Bailey with the Gwinnett County Medical Examiner's Office identifies her as Astrid Hidalgo.

A DeKalb County man was taken to the hospital Monday afternoon after a falling tree hit him in his back yard. A tree snapped at his home on Fieldgreen Drive in Stone Mountain. He is expected to survive.

The National Weather Service in Peachtree City said Sunday night at least six of the storms in Georgia were tornadoes, including the one in Laurens County where the death occurred.

Gov. Sonny Perdue issued an executive order Monday declaring a state of emergency in seven additional counties affected by tornadoes that struck on Sunday. The seven counties are Clayton, Crawford, Emanuel, Glynn, Jenkins, McIntosh, and Twiggs. The announcement follows an emergency declaration released on Sunday declaring six Georgia counties in a state of emergency: Bibb, Carroll, Douglas, Jefferson, Johnson and Laurens. It allows state resources to be available for response and recovery activities.

Some of the worst damage was in Clayton County where 53 homes were deemed unlivable.

The violent storm system that ripped through Georgia on Mother's Day left at least 21 people dead and hundreds more injured in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri on Saturday as it tore across the middle of the country.

Counties along the Georgia's southern coast were still under tornado warnings and watches late Sunday morning as the storm system worked its way across the state. Only minor damage had been reported along the coast as of early Sunday afternoon, Janak said.

In Johnson County about 170 miles southeast of Atlanta, the small town of Kite was destroyed by what the storm, said Caroline Pope, a communications officer with the Johnson County Sheriff's Department. She said close to 1,000 people live in Kite.

"From what they're telling me, it's gone," she said from the dispatch center in the jail, which was operating on a generator because the power was out.

Several residents were trapped in their homes, but rescue efforts were slowed because authorities had to cut through trees blocking roads to get to the town, Pope said.

Thousands Hit With Power Outages After Storms

Thousands of Georgia customers remained without power Monday, a day after severe storms across the state killed two and damaged hundreds of homes and business.

About 43,000 customers remained without electricity Monday, including 1,600 in the metro Atlanta area, Georgia Power Co. spokesman Jeff Wilson said. Most of the outages were in Macon.

Wilson said he could not provide a timetable for restoring power as long as winds continued to gust.