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Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
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ATLANTA -- The storms that hit metro Atlanta and north Georgia were even worse than most people thought.
There were four and possibly as many 14 tornadoes spawned over the weekend, officials at the National Weather Service said Monday afternoon.
With most of the city's downtown tourism infrastructure damaged by a tornado, officials are scrambling to make sure no upcoming conventions move to other cities.
So far, no events scheduled for downtown Atlanta have canceled despite hundreds of hotel rooms being out of commission and significant damage to the city's largest convention venue, the Georgia World Congress Center, said Spurgeon Richardson, president and CEO of the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau.
"We are open for business," Richardson said, a phrase that turned into a mantra for the tourism officials speaking during a news conference at the CVB's headquarters downtown.
This coming weekend, a volleyball tournament expected to bring 38,000 people to Atlanta will likely be scattered at venues throughout the metro area instead of concentrated at the World Congress Center as planned, officials said.
The Omni Hotel, which lost nearly 500 rooms when a tornado ripped through downtown Friday night, is hosting a 600-person U.S. Department of Energy conference this week, said Mike Sullivan, marketing director for the hotel.
World Congress Center officials expected to have a damage estimate for the 3.9 million square-foot facility later Monday afternoon.
The tornado ripped through the roof of an exhibition hall in one building of the World Congress Center, leaving light fixtures, awnings, and pieces of the building's infrastructure dangling and exposed. On Monday, workers continued to clear the scattered insulation, metal, glass and other debris littering the facility.
There is enough undamaged space at the center to house most of the upcoming conventions, said Mark Zimmerman, general manager.
A floor-covering expo is expected to bring 8,000 attendees, and the National Propane Gas Association meeting is expected to draw 5,000 people, according to the CVB's Web site.
At least 27 people were hurt but no deaths reported in the tornado that swept through Friday night. Two people were killed in northwest Georgia when a separate storm moved through Saturday.
Jerry Paul Albers, 71, was killed by flying debris, Floyd County Coroner Barry Henderson said. In Polk County, Bonnie Gene Turner, 63, was killed when a tornado demolished her home and threw her and her husband into a field, Coroner Trey Litesey said. Her husband survived and is in critical condition at Erlanger hospital in Chattanooga, hospital spokeswoman Sharon Cahill said.
Statewide, the damage was about $250 million, making the storms the most expensive in Georgia history, John Oxendine, commissioner of insurance and safety fire for the state, said Monday afternoon after visiting northwest Georgia counties and walking around Atlanta's Cabbagetown neighborhood.
Saturday's tornado ripped a 13-mile path through Polk, Floyd and Bartow counties on the Georgia-Alabama border, while Friday's storm collapsed four floors of a loft apartment building and toppled trees onto houses in Cabbagetown.
In Atlanta, cleaning up the shattered glass, torn roofs and debris-littered streets of downtown will be a much quicker task than repairing the financial damage caused by the tornado, state officials said Sunday.
Several landmarks, including the Georgia World Congress Center, the Westin Peachtree Plaza and the Equitable Building, were in the six-mile path of the storm, which moved along the Atlanta skyline for about 20 minutes.
With the closing of the Georgia World Congress Center -- a 3.9 million square-foot convention center -- the city lost the Atlanta Home Show and a dental convention going on last weekend. And the Georgia Dome lost much of the Southeastern Conference basketball tournament.
The games were moved to north of downtown to Georgia Tech's much smaller gym on Saturday, preventing many fans from attending because of space constraints. The SEC is making plans to give refunds to fans unable to get into the tournament games, according to a statement on the conference's Web site. The plan could cost the conference about $1.8 million in revenue.
Dental convention attendees gathered in Centennial Olympic Park across from the World Congress Center on Monday waiting to be let into the center to clean out their exhibitions. Some were frustrated that so little information was given to them on when they could shutter the show and ship it to the next city.
"They haven't given us anything as far as a timetable is concerned," said Annette Bertram of Dexus Digital X-Ray.
The shows are required to have their own insurance to hold an event at the center, so the World Congress Center is only responsible for damage to the building and not the property inside, officials said.
Tourism officials were relieved that attractions like the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola emerged unscathed after the tornado.
Some tourists weren't even aware there had been a storm until they checked into their hotels this weekend.
"We're hoping to see a little bit of something we don't normally see," Frank Kennedy, who is in town with his wife, Jean, visiting from Dublin, Ireland, said about the tornado damage.
The pair's home country doesn't have tornadoes, so the broken windows, blocked streets and topple billboards and trees downtown are somewhat of a novelty for them, he said.
Commuters to downtown Atlanta were encouraged to stay home Monday as cleanup in the area continued. Many streets were closed and some traffic lights remained out.
On their lunch breaks, employees of downtown businesses navigated sidewalks blocked by yellow caution tape and gawked at the holes in windows on many of the tall buildings downtown. Broken glass still littered the ground and police warned pedestrians to watch for glass and other debris that could fall from buildings.
"I could have walked faster," said Kendra Wright, 22, an office manager downtown whose 20 minute commute took an hour. "I just hope it's not this bad going home."
The city's hotels are working to find space to house conventions that might otherwise have gone to the World Congress Center, said Ed Walls, general manager of the Westin Peachtree Hotel, which was damaged by the storm.
Walls estimated that about 30 percent of the hotel's business came from events related to the facility, and that the first four months are among the busiest of the year for conventions in Atlanta.
"It's a work in progress right now," he said during a news conference, flanked by the city's tourism officials. "There is no question that the World Congress Center is an important component, but there are alternatives."
Copyright 2008 by WSBTV.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15600856/detail.html
There were four and possibly as many 14 tornadoes spawned over the weekend, officials at the National Weather Service said Monday afternoon.
With most of the city's downtown tourism infrastructure damaged by a tornado, officials are scrambling to make sure no upcoming conventions move to other cities.
So far, no events scheduled for downtown Atlanta have canceled despite hundreds of hotel rooms being out of commission and significant damage to the city's largest convention venue, the Georgia World Congress Center, said Spurgeon Richardson, president and CEO of the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau.
"We are open for business," Richardson said, a phrase that turned into a mantra for the tourism officials speaking during a news conference at the CVB's headquarters downtown.
This coming weekend, a volleyball tournament expected to bring 38,000 people to Atlanta will likely be scattered at venues throughout the metro area instead of concentrated at the World Congress Center as planned, officials said.
The Omni Hotel, which lost nearly 500 rooms when a tornado ripped through downtown Friday night, is hosting a 600-person U.S. Department of Energy conference this week, said Mike Sullivan, marketing director for the hotel.
World Congress Center officials expected to have a damage estimate for the 3.9 million square-foot facility later Monday afternoon.
The tornado ripped through the roof of an exhibition hall in one building of the World Congress Center, leaving light fixtures, awnings, and pieces of the building's infrastructure dangling and exposed. On Monday, workers continued to clear the scattered insulation, metal, glass and other debris littering the facility.
There is enough undamaged space at the center to house most of the upcoming conventions, said Mark Zimmerman, general manager.
A floor-covering expo is expected to bring 8,000 attendees, and the National Propane Gas Association meeting is expected to draw 5,000 people, according to the CVB's Web site.
At least 27 people were hurt but no deaths reported in the tornado that swept through Friday night. Two people were killed in northwest Georgia when a separate storm moved through Saturday.
Jerry Paul Albers, 71, was killed by flying debris, Floyd County Coroner Barry Henderson said. In Polk County, Bonnie Gene Turner, 63, was killed when a tornado demolished her home and threw her and her husband into a field, Coroner Trey Litesey said. Her husband survived and is in critical condition at Erlanger hospital in Chattanooga, hospital spokeswoman Sharon Cahill said.
Statewide, the damage was about $250 million, making the storms the most expensive in Georgia history, John Oxendine, commissioner of insurance and safety fire for the state, said Monday afternoon after visiting northwest Georgia counties and walking around Atlanta's Cabbagetown neighborhood.
Saturday's tornado ripped a 13-mile path through Polk, Floyd and Bartow counties on the Georgia-Alabama border, while Friday's storm collapsed four floors of a loft apartment building and toppled trees onto houses in Cabbagetown.
In Atlanta, cleaning up the shattered glass, torn roofs and debris-littered streets of downtown will be a much quicker task than repairing the financial damage caused by the tornado, state officials said Sunday.
Several landmarks, including the Georgia World Congress Center, the Westin Peachtree Plaza and the Equitable Building, were in the six-mile path of the storm, which moved along the Atlanta skyline for about 20 minutes.
With the closing of the Georgia World Congress Center -- a 3.9 million square-foot convention center -- the city lost the Atlanta Home Show and a dental convention going on last weekend. And the Georgia Dome lost much of the Southeastern Conference basketball tournament.
The games were moved to north of downtown to Georgia Tech's much smaller gym on Saturday, preventing many fans from attending because of space constraints. The SEC is making plans to give refunds to fans unable to get into the tournament games, according to a statement on the conference's Web site. The plan could cost the conference about $1.8 million in revenue.
Dental convention attendees gathered in Centennial Olympic Park across from the World Congress Center on Monday waiting to be let into the center to clean out their exhibitions. Some were frustrated that so little information was given to them on when they could shutter the show and ship it to the next city.
"They haven't given us anything as far as a timetable is concerned," said Annette Bertram of Dexus Digital X-Ray.
The shows are required to have their own insurance to hold an event at the center, so the World Congress Center is only responsible for damage to the building and not the property inside, officials said.
Tourism officials were relieved that attractions like the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola emerged unscathed after the tornado.
Some tourists weren't even aware there had been a storm until they checked into their hotels this weekend.
"We're hoping to see a little bit of something we don't normally see," Frank Kennedy, who is in town with his wife, Jean, visiting from Dublin, Ireland, said about the tornado damage.
The pair's home country doesn't have tornadoes, so the broken windows, blocked streets and topple billboards and trees downtown are somewhat of a novelty for them, he said.
Commuters to downtown Atlanta were encouraged to stay home Monday as cleanup in the area continued. Many streets were closed and some traffic lights remained out.
On their lunch breaks, employees of downtown businesses navigated sidewalks blocked by yellow caution tape and gawked at the holes in windows on many of the tall buildings downtown. Broken glass still littered the ground and police warned pedestrians to watch for glass and other debris that could fall from buildings.
"I could have walked faster," said Kendra Wright, 22, an office manager downtown whose 20 minute commute took an hour. "I just hope it's not this bad going home."
The city's hotels are working to find space to house conventions that might otherwise have gone to the World Congress Center, said Ed Walls, general manager of the Westin Peachtree Hotel, which was damaged by the storm.
Walls estimated that about 30 percent of the hotel's business came from events related to the facility, and that the first four months are among the busiest of the year for conventions in Atlanta.
"It's a work in progress right now," he said during a news conference, flanked by the city's tourism officials. "There is no question that the World Congress Center is an important component, but there are alternatives."
Copyright 2008 by WSBTV.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15600856/detail.html
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wbug1
Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
Can an EF2 really do this? Lucky the structure didn't fail.
http://www.wsbtv.com/tornado/15633673/detail.html
http://www.wsbtv.com/tornado/15633673/detail.html
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Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
wbug1 wrote:Can an EF2 really do this? Lucky the structure didn't fail.
http://www.wsbtv.com/tornado/15633673/detail.html
That's got me wondering too... the Westin Peachtree seemed to be on the northern fringe of the damage path too. Very interesting.
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Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
845 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
...PRELIMINARY REPORT FOR MARCH 14TH CITY OF ATLANTA TORNADO...
A DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS CONFIRMED THAT AN EF2 TORNADO TRACKED
THROUGH THE HEART OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA BETWEEN 938 AND 950 PM EST
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 14TH.
THE TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF SIMPSON AND
BURBANK STREETS IN THE VINE CITY NEIGHBORHOOD AT APPROXIMATELY 938
PM. THE TORNADO THEN TRACKED DUE EAST OVER THE CENTER OF THE
GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER /ABOUT 100 YARDS NORTH OF THE GEORGIA
DOME WHERE AN SEC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT WAS TAKING PLACE/...ACROSS
THE CNN/OMNI HOTEL COMPLEX AND PHILLIPS ARENA /WHERE AN NBA
BASKETBALL GAME WAS UNDERWAY/...OVER THE EQUITABLE BANK
TOWER...ACROSS I-85/75 AT THE EDGEWOOD EXIT...AND THEN INTO THE
COTTON MILL LOFTS ACROSS FROM OAKLAND CEMETERY. FROM THIS
POINT...THE TORNADO WEAKENED BUT CAUSED SPOTTY TREE AND ROOF DAMAGE
INTO EXTREME WESTERN DEKALB COUNTY NEAR THE JUNCTION OF BRAEBURN AND
JOSEPHINE STREETS...WHERE IT LIFTED. THE TORNADO HAD A TOTAL PATH
LENGTH OF SIX MILES AND A MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH OF 200 YARDS AT ITS
MAXIMUM STRENGTH. MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS WERE ESTIMATED NEAR 130
MPH...WHICH IS A HIGH END EF2 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE. AS IT
MOVED ACROSS THE GWCC/CNN/OMNI COMPLEX...THE TORNADO WIDTH WAS ABOUT
100 YARDS WIDE AND PRODUCED HIGH EF1 WINDS OF ABOUT 100 MPH.
AT LEAST 50 HOMES WERE DAMAGED BY THE TORNADO...AS WERE SEVERAL
MULTI-STORY TOWERS AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS NEAR AND EAST OF THE
CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK. WINDOWS WERE BLOWN OUT OF MANY OF THE
TOWERS...AT ALL HEIGHTS. DAMAGE IN RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL AREAS
RANGED FROM ROOFING MATERIALS BLOWN FROM HOMES AND BUSINESSES TO
TREES FALLING ON STRUCTURES AND VEHICLES. THE COTTON MILL LOFTS
EXPERIENCED THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WITH THE ROOF BLOWN OFF AND
EXTERIOR WALLS OF THE TOP /FOURTH/ FLOOR BLOWN INWARD. TWO SECTIONS
OF THE FOURTH FLOOR COLLAPSED ALL THE WAY INTO BASEMENT OF THE
BUILDING...TRAPPING SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE COMPLEX.
NO WEATHER-RELATED FATALITIES WERE REPORTED WITH THE TORNADO...BUT
NUMEROUS NON-LIFE-THREATING INJURIES OCCURRED.
THE NWS IS GRATEFUL TO THE ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR PROVIDING
AERIAL SURVEY SUPPORT AND TO THE ATLANTA/FULTON COUNTY EMA FOR THEIR
ASSISTANCE.
$$
LPR/SBK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
845 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
...PRELIMINARY REPORT FOR MARCH 14TH CITY OF ATLANTA TORNADO...
A DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS CONFIRMED THAT AN EF2 TORNADO TRACKED
THROUGH THE HEART OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA BETWEEN 938 AND 950 PM EST
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 14TH.
THE TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF SIMPSON AND
BURBANK STREETS IN THE VINE CITY NEIGHBORHOOD AT APPROXIMATELY 938
PM. THE TORNADO THEN TRACKED DUE EAST OVER THE CENTER OF THE
GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER /ABOUT 100 YARDS NORTH OF THE GEORGIA
DOME WHERE AN SEC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT WAS TAKING PLACE/...ACROSS
THE CNN/OMNI HOTEL COMPLEX AND PHILLIPS ARENA /WHERE AN NBA
BASKETBALL GAME WAS UNDERWAY/...OVER THE EQUITABLE BANK
TOWER...ACROSS I-85/75 AT THE EDGEWOOD EXIT...AND THEN INTO THE
COTTON MILL LOFTS ACROSS FROM OAKLAND CEMETERY. FROM THIS
POINT...THE TORNADO WEAKENED BUT CAUSED SPOTTY TREE AND ROOF DAMAGE
INTO EXTREME WESTERN DEKALB COUNTY NEAR THE JUNCTION OF BRAEBURN AND
JOSEPHINE STREETS...WHERE IT LIFTED. THE TORNADO HAD A TOTAL PATH
LENGTH OF SIX MILES AND A MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH OF 200 YARDS AT ITS
MAXIMUM STRENGTH. MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS WERE ESTIMATED NEAR 130
MPH...WHICH IS A HIGH END EF2 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE. AS IT
MOVED ACROSS THE GWCC/CNN/OMNI COMPLEX...THE TORNADO WIDTH WAS ABOUT
100 YARDS WIDE AND PRODUCED HIGH EF1 WINDS OF ABOUT 100 MPH.
AT LEAST 50 HOMES WERE DAMAGED BY THE TORNADO...AS WERE SEVERAL
MULTI-STORY TOWERS AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS NEAR AND EAST OF THE
CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK. WINDOWS WERE BLOWN OUT OF MANY OF THE
TOWERS...AT ALL HEIGHTS. DAMAGE IN RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL AREAS
RANGED FROM ROOFING MATERIALS BLOWN FROM HOMES AND BUSINESSES TO
TREES FALLING ON STRUCTURES AND VEHICLES. THE COTTON MILL LOFTS
EXPERIENCED THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WITH THE ROOF BLOWN OFF AND
EXTERIOR WALLS OF THE TOP /FOURTH/ FLOOR BLOWN INWARD. TWO SECTIONS
OF THE FOURTH FLOOR COLLAPSED ALL THE WAY INTO BASEMENT OF THE
BUILDING...TRAPPING SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE COMPLEX.
NO WEATHER-RELATED FATALITIES WERE REPORTED WITH THE TORNADO...BUT
NUMEROUS NON-LIFE-THREATING INJURIES OCCURRED.
THE NWS IS GRATEFUL TO THE ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR PROVIDING
AERIAL SURVEY SUPPORT AND TO THE ATLANTA/FULTON COUNTY EMA FOR THEIR
ASSISTANCE.
$$
LPR/SBK
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wbug1
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 6967e.html
100 mph+ reported near Dallas/Ft Wrth airport, is this correct?
100 mph+ reported near Dallas/Ft Wrth airport, is this correct?
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wbug1
Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
Right, must be wrong. Can't see the hotel shifting, if it had the water mains and sewage pipes would have been wrecked.
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Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
wbug1 wrote:Right, must be wrong. Can't see the hotel shifting, if it had the water mains and sewage pipes would have been wrecked.
Not necessarily, if the building is designed to shft as they stated, then I would imagine the infrastructure is designed for that purpose also. The biggest question when doing that would be how much shift do you design for?
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wbug1
Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
I've never heard of an infrastructure capable of shifting. A water main for that tall a building would be highly pressurized to move the water up to the top floor. You can't make it of plastic, it has to be metal or a strong material that doesn't bend. If that building shifted, then the water main is ruptured.
Ahhh.. I see they meant it swayed two feet. That's a lot better (!) in terms of the building being sound.
Then again.. it could have fatigued the water main and sewer pipes, and the support columns.
Ahhh.. I see they meant it swayed two feet. That's a lot better (!) in terms of the building being sound.
Then again.. it could have fatigued the water main and sewer pipes, and the support columns.
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Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
wbug1 wrote:I've never heard of an infrastructure capable of shifting. A water main for that tall a building would be highly pressurized to move the water up to the top floor. You can't make it of plastic, it has to be metal or a strong material that doesn't bend. If that building shifted, then the water main is ruptured.
The Lubbock Tornado of 1970 famously shifted the tallest building in downtown Lubbock at that time. But that was an F5, and the only documented F5 to directly hit a skyscraper.
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wbug1
Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
Ahhh.. I see they meant it swayed two feet. That's a lot better (!) in terms of the building being sound.
Then again.. it could have fatigued the water main or sewer pipes, or the support columns.
Then again.. it could have fatigued the water main or sewer pipes, or the support columns.
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wbug1
Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
Jasons,
http://www.lubbockonline.com/lubbock_to ... ndex.shtml
the information on the Lubbock tornado is interesting. It also would be a lot easier to read if it wasn't plastered with ads right over the text, but that's a different story. Also, after attempting to reload one page with the news article, I got this message:
Not Found
The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. Please inform the site administrator of the referring page.
http://www.lubbockonline.com/lubbock_to ... /001.shtml still works.
http://www.lubbockonline.com/lubbock_to ... ndex.shtml
the information on the Lubbock tornado is interesting. It also would be a lot easier to read if it wasn't plastered with ads right over the text, but that's a different story. Also, after attempting to reload one page with the news article, I got this message:
Not Found
The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. Please inform the site administrator of the referring page.
http://www.lubbockonline.com/lubbock_to ... /001.shtml still works.
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Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
The FFC Office has posted a detailed damage map of the ATL tornado, as well as radar images of the event on their page.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/html/tor031408.shtml
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/html/tor031408.shtml
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Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
GREAT track map. Very helpful.
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wbug1
Re: Atlanta tornado aftermath, another tornado outbreak March 15
I take it that from the suction type damage (e.g, the Atlanta Convention Centre) during the Atlanta tornado that it was similar to the Lubbock tornado with a multiple vortex structure, as per Fujita's analysis. Looks different though, because the Atlanta tornado was only EF2 and only 200 yards wide, while the Lubbock tornado was over 800 yards wide. As I underdtand it, multiple vortex tornados are usually only associated with EF4+.
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