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Old 04-16-2011, 08:41 AM
 
Location: Virginia Highland, GA
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Atlanta can be very severe, the 2009 Tornado for example, basically came out of no where.
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:41 AM
 
Location: Marietta, GA
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Sirens and the WX radio went off at 2:30am this morning with tornado warning. Turned on the TV and saw a storm cell "with potential rotation" bearing down on my area of Cobb County. Woke up everyone and 20 min later it was all done. I guess the cell passed to the south of us but wasn't taking chances. What is with all these storms happening in the middle of the night?

Who was it on this forum that said that this stuff only happens in the late afternoon?
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Old 04-16-2011, 10:30 PM
 
Location: West Cobb County, GA (Atlanta metro)
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Default During the Apr. 15 outbreak...

Lesson I learned: When certain news channels are on bragging about their new "3D Mega-matrix multi-dimensional panomode doppler radar system", and they say "the worst has passed and the few coming in from Alabama are normal thunderstorms"... don't believe them. The worst had passed and only a few "normal" thunderstorms were to the West, so I turned off my weather radio which had been going off all night and went to bed.

Same time period in West Cobb, 2:30am, and a nearby siren went off. Turned on to look at the 3D Hoopasupee radar, and it showed a tornado on the ground coming out of Douglasville, with a path line pretty much showing it was going to go through my living room in a few minutes. Got the dog, went into the bathroom (no basement). Couple of minutes later rain/wind that was going sideways hit the house and watching through my security cam monitor, you couldn't see 20 feet ahead of you by what was going on outside. One minute later, poof, like someone flipped a switch, it all stopped... no wind, no rain. Checked radar again and it apparently passed us maybe 8-10 blocks south of my house.

Further down the road, the old (closed two months ago) BJ's Warehouse was hit. Roof peeled off and scattered all over the parking lot and beyond. Huge strips of aluminum roofing up to 40 feet long just bent up like pretzels all over, along with old buggy return structures destroyed and insulation blown and packed into the side of trees that had most of their leaves stripped from them.

Two pics I took of the area:






They may have changed it, but earlier they were saying that Wed/Thur/Fri there will be a chance of storms again, and a possibility some of them can be severe.
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Old 04-17-2011, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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Greg - Wow. Glad you and your pup are alright! The second pic (of the stop sign) is sorta amazing. Thanks for sharing (and you're spot on about the radar thing).
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Old 04-17-2011, 09:40 PM
 
Location: West Cobb County, GA (Atlanta metro)
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Greg - Wow. Glad you and your pup are alright! The second pic (of the stop sign) is sorta amazing. Thanks for sharing (and you're spot on about the radar thing).
The stop sign was also at the other end of the parking lot - probably 350+ feet or more from the warehouse. If you look in the background, you can see more aluminum that was blown next to the shopping center that's in front of the warehouse as well - more is even further beyond that.

Some of the sheets of aluminum were huge - up to 30 feet long and twisted like pretzels. They were thin enough where an adult man can stand on a "sheet" of them and bend them up, but not that easy to bend, either - and they were in every shape you could think of. Insulation from the warehouse roof was packed into trees at the other end of the parking lot like it had been hand-packed tight into the branches, and most of the leaves had been stripped from several of the trees. Bad stuff.

At the time of this writing the death toll from the storm outbreak is around 45, once you include the 22+ people killed by the tornado cluster outbreak in NC on Saturday. Alabama and NC had the largest number of tornadoes by sheer number - we were relatively spared anything close to what they had.

The Weather Channel has a clickable map that shows where the "official" touchdowns were in the region (takes a minute to load) - HERE.
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Old 04-17-2011, 09:46 PM
 
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Yeah I'm nearby when I saw that in the morning. The siren woke me up about 2am and I stayed up until it passed. Glad you are okay and it hit an empty warehouse.
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Old 04-17-2011, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Douglasville, GA
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After the last few weeks is anyone still buying the notion that this sort of weather is unusual for this area?
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Old 04-18-2011, 08:43 AM
 
Location: West Cobb County, GA (Atlanta metro)
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Oh, and the Weather Channel has just said that another "potential outbreak" of severe weather is in the forecast for this area on Wednesday, too. Followed by yet another system late on the weekend or early next week that's also taking form out West, too.
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Old 04-18-2011, 12:22 PM
 
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Right now our risk doesn't look too high for this next storm. There was an interesting graph at TWC online though:

Tornadoes in Atlanta, Ga. (1950-2009) - weather.com
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