STORY: The tornado hit the city's Baiyun district on Saturday afternoon, damaging 141 factory buildings but no residential houses had collapsed, state news agency Xinhua said.
Rescuers from the city's emergency management, weather, fire, waterworks and health departments, as well as local residents, were sent to the area, Xinhua said, adding that search and rescue work was completed there.
Hailstones the size of golf balls also battered farmlands and residential compounds in Guangdong.
