Heavy rain and tornado sirens were the story Sunday, but high winds could be the story today.

The National Weather Service has issued the wind advisory for the northern two-thirds of the state, including Troup County, with gusts of up to 35 mph possible until 6 p.m. today.

The winds follow a cold front that passed through West Georgia on Sunday, dumping 3.5 inches of rain on downtown LaGrange, and flooding streets and a few houses.

Winds with the storm prompted a 45-minute tornado warning at 3 p.m.

A porch collapsed at the West Georgia Ministerial Alliance building on Hamilton Street next to Lakes Dunson Robertson Funeral Home.

The Rev. Willie Edmondson, owner of the damaged building and the funeral home, is out of town and has not seen the damage. Employees at the funeral home informed him of the damage.

“There is a retaining wall in front of the building and it collapsed (bringing the porch down with it). Water has been going down through that thing for a good while now. I had taken some dirt and filled up the hole, but evidently all this water recently has been too stressful,” Edmondson said by phone this morning.

The building houses Edmondson’s office and is used for meetings of ministers from throughout West Georgia.

The Weather Service reported a tornado near LaGrange at 3:19 p.m. Sunday. Dispatchers at the Troup County 911 center and other county officials could not confirm it, but they said a warning was issued because “conditions were right” for a tornado Sunday.

A tree was reported down on Whitaker Road, and a tree fell on a house on South Oak Drive.

With saturated ground and high winds, “I’m expecting more of that today,” said county engineer James Emery, who spent Sunday monitoring the storm and sending crews out to block flooded roads from through traffic.

Deputy 911 Director Jerry Presnal said dispatchers mainly got calls for flooded streets, although water did make it into about a half a dozen houses. Houses were reported flooded on Harman Road, Cameron Crossing, Laurel Ridge, Mount Zion Church Road, Alton Drive, Sir Galahad Drive and Garden Meadows apartments.

“The main thing we had was a lot of street flooding,” he said, with reports too numerous to mention.

Emery said roads were blocked on the following county roads due to flooding: John Lovelace Road, West Mount Zion Church Road, Harman Road, Lovelace Road and Hightower Road. Emery said crews were out this morning checking for damage on the roads that had been covered by water.

County officials, as well as LaGrange utilities director Patrick Bowie, said power outages were isolated after the storm and were restored quickly. A dispatcher at the West Point Police Department said the city - which also was hit by the storm - had lost power but everything was back to normal this morning.

Hogansville reported no damage or incidents. The city had one power outage at 901 E. Main St.

The storms rumbled across much of north Georgia, spawning a daylong tornado watch, flood warnings and high-wind advisories. Flood warnings were still in effect this morning in many places.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the nasty weather snarled air traffic at Atlanta’s airport Sunday, with some arriving flights delayed nearly five hours. But the FAA’s Web site said flights were departing pretty much on schedule by this morning.

Firefighters in Peachtree City had to use boats Sunday evening to evacuate a number of residents from a condo complex after heavy rain caused flooding, with waters rising to several feet in the deepest places.