2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak

Other buildings that were damaged include the Georgia World Congress Center, and the Omni Hotel, which was evacuated after many windows were blown out.

[2] Two other deaths took place on March 15, in the northern Atlanta suburbs, from a second, larger round of severe weather and tornadoes.

The tornado moved to the southeast, which is unusual as most supercells have a strong northward component along (or ahead of) a cold front.

[4] However, by mid afternoon, areas of east-central Georgia and central South Carolina were upgraded to a high risk of severe storms due to the tornado threat.

The windows of the Westin continued to fall for days after the tornado, forcing police to keep several city blocks and MARTA's Peachtree Center station closed to pedestrians.

The Georgia World Congress Center also sustained flooding while hosting a JROTC event and the Hinman Dental Meeting; Fox Sports Net took footage of a staircase in the new section of the complex that looked like a fountain with water cascading down it.

Oakland Cemetery suffered major damage to monuments and to its huge oaks and magnolias, and the caretaker found window blinds around the neck of a statue of a Civil War veteran buried there.

Another building at The Stacks on Boulevard was damaged; search and rescue personnel were unable to enter, but everyone was accounted for by the management within a few hours.

[66] When the tornado hit, a SEC tournament game between Mississippi State and Alabama which had just been sent into overtime minutes earlier by a shot from Mykal Riley, was in progress at the Georgia Dome and being broadcast live on television.

[71] CNN resumed broadcasting from their main newsroom at 6 am EDT, showing several parts of the newsroom with computer stations covered with tarps, the damaged atrium of CNN Center, and staff using trash cans and buckets to collect dripping rainwater to the right of the anchor desk due to the damaged roof.

Street level tornado track map of the Atlanta tornado (NWS Peachtree City, Georgia )
Damage near Centennial Park
Damage from inside the top of the Westin Peachtree, not easily visible from the ground
A 100-year-old Water oak tree crushes a GMC van in the North Ormewood Park neighborhood
Tree uprooted in the Cabbagetown neighborhood, taking most of the yard with it
Tornado damage on Marietta Street in front of CNN Center / Omni Hotel
The Atlanta tornado severely damaged this Loft building