For everyone who randomly clicks on this video 12 years later, this is not footage of the actual EF-2 tornado that hit downtown Atlanta in March 2008. That storm hit at night. This was from a series of rotating storms across Georgia the next day, and Glenn Burns mistakenly thought a whole wall cloud and tornado was on the ground again somewhere in Atlanta. Nothing was ever confirmed for the next day.
The storm shown here did not produce a confirmed tornado (though there were warnings issued at the time). There was a confirmed tornado in downtown Atlanta on the previous evening (Friday March 14) which is most famous for having struck the Georgia Dome while an SEC basketball tournament game between Alabama and Mississippi State was in progress. The video here shows a wall cloud or similar feature moving through Atlanta during the afternoon of Saturday March 15.
Wow-amazing footage! I was watching the weather Channel (they were kinda nervous up there-lol) and I got Atlanta Cams and the news-and I was glued to my computer. I used to live in boring Montgomery Alabama for 4 years and we had 4-5" hail at my house and.. I heard a "roar". Colorado is so sedate :) LOVE ATLANTA!
I am a National Weather Service certified, trained storm spotter, and this is not a tornado. This is what is known as a scud cloud, seen on the top right of the cloud formation with a trailing rain streak (location of heavy rain) behind the leading scud cloud. Just because there is rotation doesn't mean it is a tornado. A tornado means rotation extends from the cloud base to the ground, whether a funnel is visible or not.
I'm pretty sure that Is just the Rain core. There could be a tornado in it but I am honestly not seeing it. I KNOW THERE WAS ONE actually like 45 or something but That just looks like a rain core to me.
I was in fifth grade when this happened. Exciting but scary. If the tornado was on the ground at that moment in time, it would have been rained-wrapped.
I was working in Banks Crossing when one of the tornadoes went up I-85. The sirens went off and we had golf ball sized hail preceding the tornado. Around 1pm it was as dark as 9pm just before it all went down.
@cameron18able Oh it was. People lived with this notion that a tornado would NEVER hit downtown ATL because of all the buildings close together, but that myth was exposed that day. I live in Decatur which is 13 minutes from downtown Atlanta. That storm was horrible. I remember running for the basement with my mother that day. Never been that scared before. Thank God WSB and the ATL news market for keeping us up to date because we dont have tornado sirens in this part of DeKalb County.
I am friend of Dr. Forbes and work in Atlanta. This is not the March 14th tornado that the city. This rain shaft was the following day. The pictures Dr. Forbes saw were from March 14th. In fact Dr. Forbes is aware of this video and is the one who told me it WAS NOT A TORNADO
Probably 1 of two reasons. 1. To gather data on the tornado, We still don't fully understand tornadoes so they need people on the field to record data and also to pinpoint the exact location of the tornado. 2. As stated by the others, for adrenaline. Being near a tornado or any other severe weather is unreal and gets ya all tensed. I know that cause I've been through 3 hurricanes so far. It's a serious adrenaline rush
I think the weather service issued a "Tornado Emergency" for this particular storm, but it wasn't a tornado. All the signs were there that there was rotation, but it just didn't touch the ground. IIRC, the only tornado to touch down in the Atlanta city limits was the March 14 Georgia Dome Tornado. Remember, Glenn Burns love to hype storms. Should of heard him with the Mother's day storms... "Go Ahead and sleep in the basement tonight"
@josephamaker94 This was actually the day after the tornado that hit the Georgia Dome. I think millions of us saw this on TV and sent up a collective "Oh God" at the same time, because the storm just dissipated before it got to Downtown.
I remember I was in 3rd grade when this happened. I was at school in math class when the office announced a funnel cloud got spotted. It scared me and everyone to DEATH that day.
the tornado was there its rain wrapped inside that dark area as you can see not all tornadoes are visible some are wrapped by rain (like the atlanta tornado) and some u can see as clear as day. knowing so i live in atlanta and i saw the damage it left im pretty sure a full roof wouldnt have been gone from a house if it was a " wall cloud" i know what ive see i was at the basketball game when it hit. so you can see it was indeed infact a tornado
i guess because a lot of us are used to them. I've been in a tornado, and its the biggest adrenaline rush i've ever had. Yes, scary as hell, but exciting none-the-less.
@josephamaker94 Most likely not. The timestamp on the television says 4:03pm, whereas the tornado that struck Atlanta occurred about 9:30pm. Moreover, the storm that struck Atlanta occurred at night - unable to be seen by tower cameras miles away.
i live in atlanta and it was the saddest thing i've ever imagined.. we went down to the basement and you could hear the roaring from outside and it souded like a train coming through the house it was horrible.
This tornado happened around when I was still in Asia (when I was 1), and in 2009 was when my family moved in the USA legally, in dekalb. Thank the lord we didn't move there earlier
I was scared half to death when this happened. I live like more than an hour away from Atlanta, but I was afraid that the storm would come over to where I live.
i know it was at night i wasnt referring to the daylight hours there was 2-3 cells that went through i know what im talking about. the tornado was a EF-1 almost and EF-2
Ah, now I see it. It is rain wrapped. Another video had the anchor claiming that the tornado could be clearly seen, which was not the case. And the vid wasn't long enough to pick out which part was twister and which part was microburst and hail.
Strange thing was, i was in a little weather forecaster group when this happened. I forecasted this storm and i knew this would happen. Nobody believed me UNTIL IT HAPPENED... I got 17 awards...
so was this the march 14 tornado, I heard there was a tornado the next day too. I live in Tuscaloosa AL, we had severe T-stroms and atlata got what went through but a day appart. We didnt' have a tornado but we had hail, It woke me up at 2am, Must have been the 13th. My dad wanted to watch to basket ball game and so I go to hear the tornado at the dome
Tornadoes are so crazy, where I live buncombe county NC we don’t get tornadoes we’ve had less then 5 since 1900 and they all were around f1 surrounding areas don’t really get tornadoes either we have mountains to the north, west, and south of buncombe county it’s a great little buffer since tornadoes spawn in Dixie alley if we didn’t have mountains where we do we’d get tornadoes we’re in a path of Dixie alley and same can be said for weather coming in from the west the mountains bordering Tennessee disrupt a lot but when I was in elementary school we did tornado drills every once in a while although they were kinda pointless but if we do get tornadoes they haven’t gotten large than ef1 and they typically stay on ground like 100 yards nothing crazy but we had a tornado warning and as a kid in elementary school I was thinking oh shit this is happening it was just a coincidence but like I said they can’t really do a whole lot around here but the tornado touched down very very close to my neighborhood it’s dissipated not long after but you just never think it’s going to happen to you and you think even if they form as long as it’s not near you you’d be fine since they don’t really stay on ground here and it just so happened to touch down near my house
Actually last year in locust Grove GA in March we had a bad tornado although we didn’t take cover me and my sister woke up and we both were the only ones up in the morning so just waking up and heard the sirens go off so i thought u know it’s just my alarm and I make it down stairs to get breakfast and the sirens were still going on so I thought this siren sound familiar so I looked outside and all u see is dark dark clouds covering the sky forming a funnel so my mom was still sleep I went to ask my sister and she said she heard it. I went to turn the news on and we could see what the actual tornado looked like in Atlanta GA it was big and I was so scared so all I did was just goin my covers and scream and put my hands on my head under my bed so My mom woke up and the sirens stopped and boom the clouds disappeared and the sirens stopped I asked my mom did she here it? She said no she slept through all of it.
You gotta be kidding me - this is just a simple scud cloud with no rotation whatsoever apparent - I saw these types of cloud formations even when I was living in Irvine, California for heaven's sake
I knew tornadoes hits the Atlanta area but I had no idea tornadoes roars throw Georgia the way they do until I just read a report from Georgia Emergency Management. I thought people called Oklahoma and the area around there tornado alley but Georgia got it going on with tornadoes.
The hell it didnt. And in fact, if you were right, you would be wrong at the same time. By definition, until it touches down, it is NOT a tornado. It's a funnel cloud. And living in tornado alley all my life, I can tell you without question that this was a tornado because it did touch the ground and do tornado damage. Where did you come up with the idea that it didnt?
For everyone who randomly clicks on this video 12 years later, this is not footage of the actual EF-2 tornado that hit downtown Atlanta in March 2008. That storm hit at night. This was from a series of rotating storms across Georgia the next day, and Glenn Burns mistakenly thought a whole wall cloud and tornado was on the ground again somewhere in Atlanta. Nothing was ever confirmed for the next day.
I remember being in east point when this happened
Who here 2020 ? 🧨
I was in the 2nd grade when this happened luckily it didn't hit Metro Atlanta where I was
MJJ Fan Yea i live in metro atlanta but there is really no tornadoes here it is save
i live in metro anlanta i saw one forming but it di not finish so it was no tornado
MJJ Fan luckly I wasn't born and my mom lived in Alabama and she didn't work there but now she's lives in Georgia she's works in Atlanta
MJJ Fan I was probably 6 when this happened but I lived in Suwanee which is 30 minutes Northeast of Metro Atlanta.
I was in 5th grade. It was a few miles north of us and the sky turned a really weird green color
It is a bad situation, but it is so beautiful :-)
We don't have that intense beauty here in Australia :-)
pretty sure you have tornados in Australia
Bro you guys get hail there
I'm in Atlanta 😭
The storm shown here did not produce a confirmed tornado (though there were warnings issued at the time). There was a confirmed tornado in downtown Atlanta on the previous evening (Friday March 14) which is most famous for having struck the Georgia Dome while an SEC basketball tournament game between Alabama and Mississippi State was in progress. The video here shows a wall cloud or similar feature moving through Atlanta during the afternoon of Saturday March 15.
See it was in March
Wow-amazing footage! I was watching the weather Channel (they were kinda nervous up there-lol) and I got Atlanta Cams and the news-and I was glued to my computer. I used to live in boring Montgomery Alabama for 4 years and we had 4-5" hail at my house and.. I heard a "roar". Colorado is so sedate :) LOVE ATLANTA!
I am a National Weather Service certified, trained storm spotter, and this is not a tornado. This is what is known as a scud cloud, seen on the top right of the cloud formation with a trailing rain streak (location of heavy rain) behind the leading scud cloud. Just because there is rotation doesn't mean it is a tornado. A tornado means rotation extends from the cloud base to the ground, whether a funnel is visible or not.
R.I.P all the people lost there lifes in the Tornado
????-2008
I'm pretty sure that Is just the Rain core. There could be a tornado in it but I am honestly not seeing it. I KNOW THERE WAS ONE actually like 45 or something but That just looks like a rain core to me.
I was in fifth grade when this happened. Exciting but scary. If the tornado was on the ground at that moment in time, it would have been rained-wrapped.
I was working in Banks Crossing when one of the tornadoes went up I-85. The sirens went off and we had golf ball sized hail preceding the tornado. Around 1pm it was as dark as 9pm just before it all went down.
@cameron18able Oh it was. People lived with this notion that a tornado would NEVER hit downtown ATL because of all the buildings close together, but that myth was exposed that day. I live in Decatur which is 13 minutes from downtown Atlanta. That storm was horrible. I remember running for the basement with my mother that day. Never been that scared before. Thank God WSB and the ATL news market for keeping us up to date because we dont have tornado sirens in this part of DeKalb County.
I agree. You should see some of the storms that batter the Pacific Northwest from time to time. Even get up close and personal with one.
I am friend of Dr. Forbes and work in Atlanta. This is not the March 14th tornado that the city. This rain shaft was the following day.
The pictures Dr. Forbes saw were from March 14th.
In fact Dr. Forbes is aware of this video and is the one who told me it WAS NOT A TORNADO
My first tornado and only tornado and I was in douglasville arbor place mall. The most scariest thing of my life
Probably 1 of two reasons.
1. To gather data on the tornado, We still don't fully understand tornadoes so they need people on the field to record data and also to pinpoint the exact location of the tornado.
2. As stated by the others, for adrenaline. Being near a tornado or any other severe weather is unreal and gets ya all tensed. I know that cause I've been through 3 hurricanes so far. It's a serious adrenaline rush
Glen Burns!
I love Glenn Burns...
# I love GLENN BURNS
I think the weather service issued a "Tornado Emergency" for this particular storm, but it wasn't a tornado. All the signs were there that there was rotation, but it just didn't touch the ground. IIRC, the only tornado to touch down in the Atlanta city limits was the March 14 Georgia Dome Tornado.
Remember, Glenn Burns love to hype storms. Should of heard him with the Mother's day storms... "Go Ahead and sleep in the basement tonight"
@josephamaker94 This was actually the day after the tornado that hit the Georgia Dome. I think millions of us saw this on TV and sent up a collective "Oh God" at the same time, because the storm just dissipated before it got to Downtown.
@josephamaker94 no, i believe the one that hit the dome was about 5 hours later
@ZekePieXBL The Atlanta Hawks play at the Philips Arena. The game at the Georgia Dome was between Mississippi State and Alabama.
"Damn nature, you scary!"
I live in Cherokee County and hail fell down and felt really scary!! Almost like the ground shaking!! Our windows almost broke!
That's a giant tornado
It is
I remember I was in 3rd grade when this happened. I was at school in math class when the office announced a funnel cloud got spotted. It scared me and everyone to DEATH that day.
playstationgamer20 this happened on a Saturday though
I REMEMBERED ALL OF THIS!!!!! When all of the power had went outy
the tornado was there its rain wrapped inside that dark area as you can see not all tornadoes are visible some are wrapped by rain (like the atlanta tornado) and some u can see as clear as day. knowing so i live in atlanta and i saw the damage it left im pretty sure a full roof wouldnt have been gone from a house if it was a " wall cloud" i know what ive see i was at the basketball game when it hit. so you can see it was indeed infact a tornado
i guess because a lot of us are used to them. I've been in a tornado, and its the biggest adrenaline rush i've ever had. Yes, scary as hell, but exciting none-the-less.
its been 9 years Now
Man, already three years since this hit.
@josephamaker94 Most likely not. The timestamp on the television says 4:03pm, whereas the tornado that struck Atlanta occurred about 9:30pm. Moreover, the storm that struck Atlanta occurred at night - unable to be seen by tower cameras miles away.
I was in Smyrna when this happened.. Came close to my area, so glad that it missed us.. I live in Paulding County now..
***** Allatoona always gets it rough
i live in atlanta and it was the saddest thing i've ever imagined.. we went down to the basement and you could hear the roaring from outside and it souded like a train coming through the house it was horrible.
march 14-15 was some scary times (for me at least when i was 7)
I was only in elementary school in Gwinnett county , terrifying
I was 11 months and my mom told me all about this when I was like 7 now I’m almost 13
You are the exact same age as me
I live but not that far from atlanta im glad it was no where near me but we did have a tornado watch
I remember hearing the sirens for this
we looked outside and could see the top of that thing.
I almost crapped my pants.
Im sooooo glad i was not going through that town that day.
This tornado happened around when I was still in Asia (when I was 1), and in 2009 was when my family moved in the USA legally, in dekalb. Thank the lord we didn't move there earlier
When there a tornado 🌪 coming your way you should take cover from the tornado 🌪 I hope 🤞 you have a great 👍 day god bless you
I was scared half to death when this happened. I live like more than an hour away from Atlanta, but I was afraid that the storm would come over to where I live.
i know it was at night i wasnt referring to the daylight hours there was 2-3 cells that went through i know what im talking about. the tornado was a EF-1 almost and EF-2
Ah, now I see it. It is rain wrapped. Another video had the anchor claiming that the tornado could be clearly seen, which was not the case. And the vid wasn't long enough to pick out which part was twister and which part was microburst and hail.
There is a Video of Augusta Tornado As well And I remember when this happened!!
I saw this LIVE!!! My mom was gone when this happened. I was so scared!!!!
i remember this was the worst year for georgia in terms of rain it was so scary cuz im in Metro ATL
I can tell this was scary But wasn't in Atlanta back then
Is that the Hilton hotel on Virginia avenue ?
we live in smyrna and got in our basement only minor damage austell was the area hit hardest during the tornado you see on thisn
Strange thing was, i was in a little weather forecaster group when this happened. I forecasted this storm and i knew this would happen. Nobody believed me UNTIL IT HAPPENED... I got 17 awards...
crazy wild stuff. its been over a year and the westin still has weird windows. when are they ever going to get the right windows for the building?
@Hairsprayxoxoful i remember this too i was in powder springs thats where i live i was praying to save my life
I live in atlanta, and that day was super scary!
man dats dah past
we still beautiful doh
atl techwood homes we still beautiful!!
It's a HP (High Precip) supercell. Tornado, is embedded in the rain.
@XxCaMoXxSnIpErXx No. That happened the night before. This was part of another round of storms that redeveloped the next afternoon.
i was at school during the tornado warning so scared but good thing i made it out alive and my family😒
this is definitely a tornado I live here and it hit it was strong its a rain rapped tornado in east of Dixie alley (ms, al, ten, ga, sc.)
so was this the march 14 tornado, I heard there was a tornado the next day too. I live in Tuscaloosa AL, we had severe T-stroms and atlata got what went through but a day appart. We didnt' have a tornado but we had hail, It woke me up at 2am, Must have been the 13th. My dad wanted to watch to basket ball game and so I go to hear the tornado at the dome
When I was in 5th grade, I always believed this tornadeo looks more like a supercell, due to its peanut shaped cloud form.
there is one coming now
stephanie daily vlogs yea one hit Cobb county, Bolton Rd, vinings, i live in Buckhead
TechFood HowTo. yea are you scare
TechFood HowTo. i am
I go to boarding school in Massachusetts but my family is in Atlanta
stephanie daily vlogs Our school did a Tornado Drill
Tornadoes are so crazy, where I live buncombe county NC we don’t get tornadoes we’ve had less then 5 since 1900 and they all were around f1 surrounding areas don’t really get tornadoes either we have mountains to the north, west, and south of buncombe county it’s a great little buffer since tornadoes spawn in Dixie alley if we didn’t have mountains where we do we’d get tornadoes we’re in a path of Dixie alley and same can be said for weather coming in from the west the mountains bordering Tennessee disrupt a lot but when I was in elementary school we did tornado drills every once in a while although they were kinda pointless but if we do get tornadoes they haven’t gotten large than ef1 and they typically stay on ground like 100 yards nothing crazy but we had a tornado warning and as a kid in elementary school I was thinking oh shit this is happening it was just a coincidence but like I said they can’t really do a whole lot around here but the tornado touched down very very close to my neighborhood it’s dissipated not long after but you just never think it’s going to happen to you and you think even if they form as long as it’s not near you you’d be fine since they don’t really stay on ground here and it just so happened to touch down near my house
I lived at georgia and there was a tornado warning at conyers, but we survived.
Actually last year in locust Grove GA in March we had a bad tornado although we didn’t take cover me and my sister woke up and we both were the only ones up in the morning so just waking up and heard the sirens go off so i thought u know it’s just my alarm and I make it down stairs to get breakfast and the sirens were still going on so I thought this siren sound familiar so I looked outside and all u see is dark dark clouds covering the sky forming a funnel so my mom was still sleep I went to ask my sister and she said she heard it. I went to turn the news on and we could see what the actual tornado looked like in Atlanta GA it was big and I was so scared so all I did was just goin my covers and scream and put my hands on my head under my bed so My mom woke up and the sirens stopped and boom the clouds disappeared and the sirens stopped I asked my mom did she here it? She said no she slept through all of it.
No tornado warnings available in Atlanta Area!
@josephamaker94 yes it was...we were driving to my doctor when it happened and we took refuge in their bathrooms..
@josephamaker94 that isn't a tornado...
it's a microburst.
When was this? I'm from Ga. but have been in N.M. for 18 1/2 years.Georgia will always be my home
You gotta be kidding me - this is just a simple scud cloud with no rotation whatsoever apparent - I saw these types of cloud formations even when I was living in Irvine, California for heaven's sake
I knew tornadoes hits the Atlanta area but I had no idea tornadoes roars throw Georgia the way they do until I just read a report from Georgia Emergency Management. I thought people called Oklahoma and the area around there tornado alley but Georgia got it going on with tornadoes.
Tornadoes are Georgia’s #1 state to have it first so if there is a tornado warning just know that it’s gonna happen
Glenn Burns is the best.
THIS VID WAS SO OLD I WAS BORN IN 2013
Great Video... could you include the end part where Glenn goes to radar?
I lived in monroe Georgia when this happened it was the worst
U shut up u don’t know what it’s like to be in a tornado it’s baddd
in Alanta ,GA
Whats funny is while this was happening, I was on an airplane watching the tornado from the window of an airplane headed to Washington D.C.
God bless Georgia
Can anyone tell me whats going in the clouds at 1:22 look on the top left hand corner of the screen there moving really fast what is that?
I drove right through the tornado the night before!!! Scary!!!!!!!!!
My mom took a trip here and told us about it.She was at her job a school working.Her job was canceled
I was in kindergarten when this happend I was in Lithonia at the time I live in Smyrna now I remeber this I was scared when I saw this 😢
same here, i was on my way to buckhead and when i saw it i started to flip
I did not live in Atlanta during this. I wasn't even born! But now I live in Atlanta ;-;
the truth is hard to swallow sometimes, isn't it ?
The hell it didnt. And in fact, if you were right, you would be wrong at the same time. By definition, until it touches down, it is NOT a tornado. It's a funnel cloud. And living in tornado alley all my life, I can tell you without question that this was a tornado because it did touch the ground and do tornado damage. Where did you come up with the idea that it didnt?
thats where i live..but it happened 3 months before i moved here. anyone know the outcome ?
@josephamaker94 Yes, it was.
Lordy I hopes NeNe and Kim is OK.
at 0:38 it the tornado looks like a person if u look at the very left u see an ear and to the right u can just make out a nose
this happened when I was born...
I've been to Atlanta alot
lol u got that right. I watched a tornado happen and the news said it may of been what we call small windnados
Scud cloud with rain shaft
I live at Atlanta but no tornado in 2008 i was a small kid not in this state at Calforima sorry i spell it wrong.
Where's the rotation?!?
under the "LIVE" bar thing
We get tornadoes every year in Michigan.
holy crap thats a huge tornado!
Damn I hate tornados now.
Why show such a short segment?