Twin Cities was closed for the first time since 1991 and the roof of a supermarket in Wisconsin collapsed. Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty called in the National Guard while governors Chet Culver (Iowa) and Michael Rounds (South Dakota) issued disaster declarations. Aftermath The National Guard was called into Enterprise in the aftermath of the tornado. Governor Bob Riley mobilized about 100 troops and placed more on standby. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on the community after the tornado strike. On the morning of March 3, President George W. Bush visited the community and declared Coffee County a disaster area. He went into the school and also took an aerial view of the devastation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was also called in to provide additional assistance. After the tornado, there was an investigation into whether the students should have been dismissed before the tornado struck the school. However, the National Weather Service survey from the office in Tallahassee suggested that the death toll could have been much higher due to the extreme damage in the parking lot and the area nearby. In addition, earlier thunderstorm activity in the area with two other rotating supercells tracking towards Enterprise late that morning (the first tornado warning was issued at 10:41 am CST) made evacuating the area unsafe. In a later service assessment done by the NWS, it was determined that the school had taken the appropriate safety precautions to minimize and prevent potential loss of life with the tornado approaching, and the students were indeed in the safest part of the building. However, it was recommended in the assessment that hardened "safe rooms" with enhanced construction should exist, to prevent future disasters in the event of large and violent tornadoes impacting large buildings. A similar tornado on July 13, 2004 in Roanoke, Illinois, destroyed an industrial building, yet such rooms were used and no one there was seriously injured. Enterprise was hit again by a weaker tornado on October 8, 2008; however, no one was injured. See also List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks List of tornado-related deaths at schools Winter storms of 2006–07 Tornado outbreak of February 28 – March 1, 2017 Notes References External links NWS assessment: Tornadoes in Southern Alabama and Georgia on March 1, 2007 Storm Prediction Center Enterprise Ledger newspaper coverage for the Enterprise tornado NWS Tallahassee, FL tornado outbreak summary NWS Atlanta/Peachtree City,