2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak
The Atlanta Tornado Outbreak is a series of tornado devastation in the southern U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, and South and North Carolina on March 14 and 15, 2008. Most devastating of the 45 tornadoes formed in the region in and around Atlanta, Georgia.
The Atlanta tornado
The most destructive tornado raged in downtown Atlanta and damaged on its way through the city's many buildings, including the CNN Center, the Georgia Dome, the Georgia World Congress Center, Philips Arena during a basketball game of the Atlanta Hawks and the cemetery. A 45 - year-old man died on March 14 near the city center by the tornado. Two other people died on March 15 in the suburbs of Atlanta.
Course
At 21 clock EDT the Storm Prediction Center issued a severe weather warning for the entire southern U.S. states of Oklahoma and Georgia out, with a 2 % probability of a tornado in the metropolitan area of Atlanta. A tornado warning was at 21:26 EDT clock, as a storm was located ten kilometers from the city. The cyclone reached Vine City with a thickness of EF1 on the EF- scale and moved south-southeast direction Cabbagetown and East Atlanta. He left a damage path with a length of 9.7 km and a width of approximately 180 meters. In the city center, it reached its maximum strength of EF2 on the tornado scale.
More tornadoes
On March 14 and 15 formed in the southern U.S. states 45 tornadoes over a period of 21 hours and 50 minutes. Only the Atlanta tornado formed on March 14, the other 44 on March 15 devastated vast areas of the southern states. Three tornadoes reached the category EF3 on the EF scale, the first in the area around Aragon, Georgia. He influenced the areas of Polk County, Floyd County and Bartow County at approximately 16:25 UTC clock, taught over a length of approximately 26 kilometers damage and cost two lives, two others were injured. The second EF3 tornado had a path length of 45 kilometers and devastated the areas Newberry County and Richland County, South Carolina. He formed against 20:25 clock UTC and injured two people. The third and final EF3 tornado destroyed several buildings in the areas around Bamberg County and Orangeburg County, South Carolina to 23:25 UTC clock.