The Moment A Tornado Hit The Georgia Dome

[TheKyleChat]

open the doors let the poor tornado in :(

[icecubedynasty]

why were basketball teams playing in the georgia dome?

[samaasuper]

that tornado is a troll

[TWFsbeast]

ive been in one when i was 7 i live in mississippi and the town i lived in downtown took a direct hit and i remember the power going out and alot of wind real loud to next morning we had a tree laying in our yard

[noreplyism]

Is this a new ride in Universal Studios?

[megs4000]

1.They should get to shelter IMMEADIATLY

2.They were trying to calm them by playing music loudly so they wouldn't here anything

[bubblybabs]

I feel sorry for the guy on the swinging scaffolding...

[rabricci2]

the tornado gets the ball and booms goes the dynamite

[IPwnInMW927]

wwwwwwwwoooooooowwwwwww..... if you ever hear a freight train in the middle of a bad storm..... get the FUCK out of there!!!!!!!!! its a tornado... i hear one outside of my house once... in the mornin i found out it like two streets away from us

[SydneyxStarship]

I've been there...

Big ass roof.

[Landrar]

Big mean bullies just locked him out. He just wanted to shoot some hoops. Ok, granted, the people would have been the ball, but still!

[Beatles0223]

So people realize it's a tornado - and they get up to leave! Did they think they were going to be safer outside?

[TheCdubski1]

So a tornado went over the Georgia Dome in this video? or was in the area? lol

[Raajur]

I wish John Madden was there to do the play by play!

[bucknut248]

@Raajur "Take a look at that roof, BOOM! It's about to collapse! If Brett Favre were here, he'd be able to seal the holes."

[bdodgey]

Lucky that wasn't an F5

[Zeck180]

@bdodgey EF5 you'd mean.

[11215142615]

See how much more entertaining natural disasters become when sports announcers are allowed to describe them for us...Maybe one day they can come out to California and give us a little earthquake play-by-play.

[oneone1onezero0]

@11215142615 Fuck yeah dude.

[blackopsgodsniper]

I hate it when the two top comments are the same

[bigbradford69]

let the white folk out first, niggers last

[BigBoiJC]

@bigbradford69 and then chowderheads like YOU!

[Destini6001]

the players were like..."im not coming bak 2 georgia" XD

[mleblanc3232]

Like a good neighbor...state farm is there

[xxjabHAxx]

@mleblanc3232 With a tornado proof building

[niceparkjob]

@mleblanc3232 can I get a hot tub!

[geraldd4]

Love how people see the roof moving and get up to leave....Where the hell are you going?? O.o I sure in the hell wouldn't be going outside....just saying lol

[PuppyLoveCharlie]

*10 min. later* Dude i dont think were in Georgia anymore

[hawkfan2300]

Next thing you know Al Michaels will be doing play by play of a flood

[CocoaPuffKids]

i think i here the sirens

[mireyag9]

Lol once everybody looked up , they got up and trying to leave...

[SIRgarageAlot]

3 POINTS

[Xtrov]

Ahahaha, the dude seriously brought out the telestrator!

[whitfkl318nu]

I can't believe it.., the sports announcers actually started giving us a play-by-play synopsis of the tornado.., HAAA!

I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but LOL..,

[obqb8]

haha the players were like WTF? (guy in the background screams tornado) Oh shit....

[patthewizard345]

i still dont know when it actualy hits the building

[iRocPink20]

Did he just draw a smiley face?

[beatle11]

Good thing the twister sideswiped them and not hit them directly. Thousands of people in the Georgia Dome may not have been so lucky.

[tornadomad]

lol

"And you can see the rippling right in through there"

*draws circle*

it's like the super bowl... but a tornado...

[TheKJmackin]

omg i remember wen dis happened i was there wen we got out side it was horrible

[simaticable]

I wished I was there. I plan on being a meteorologist in the future so this was perfect for me. I remember this because this storm passed by my house in Woodstock.

[kingofkeyboards]

@simaticable I wish you all the best in coming a meteorologist. Don't ya get such a thrill when you see one up close? although they can be destructive, they are amazing.

[Tatertawt24]

0:51 FOOTBALL! :D

[eaglez4evr]

when u zoomed out all the fans were like o SHIT LETS GET OUT OF HERE!

[swoop17100]

As a future meterologist, that is define sound of a tornado coming through

[DetroitLove4U]

Sounds like the people instead of them bringing the "house" down they wanted the tornado as I heard cheers in the background.

[JUNIORWHOPPER]

This is Tim Brando in a nutshell.

[calltheraven]

wow. that was boring

[theYoda09]

0:48 things were falling!!!

[drybowser21]

where is it

cause i don't see it

[texasdu]

@drybowser21 no shit you dont see it....i wonder if it because of the dome.....

[IOYB]

This brings an entirely new meaning to the "spin move".

[sevendram]

that was cool. I didnt know about this footage before. thanks for posting

[AtarahDerek]

A tornado naturally sounds like a terrified basketball crowd?

[robertgift]

Why is video not better quality?

No tornado sirens or warning to get people to shelters.

Many could have been killed had this been more powerful/direct.

[FastFerrari82]

ok people well all know this was photo, i mean video shopped lol

[ferrarimike23]

That's it I've seen enough

Technical foul on the tornado!!

You get another one and your out of here

[Asabasgurl]

Omg! I thought that was the crowd making that noise at first! That must have been really scary. But what I want to know is... why didnt the people get warned before the tornado was over them? They should be glad that it wasnt worse than what it was!

[RobloxGuide]

Now as you see here, the tornado is going to run with the ball..

[MeqaiiPoo]

-At First I Thought That This Looks Like Phillips Areana-!

[gsxer13]

If that had been a strong tornado that roof would have been tore off. Then there would have been a few thousand people running for the exits!

[GarshardJeVard]

Why is everybody leaving? The tornado is outside!!

[boo101895]

tht was bad lighting at 0:19

[bry3685]

lmao at announcer doing tornado play by play then at after 1:00 on the youtube video (the extended version) the announcer will show a instant replay of whats going on inside the dome and the rippling effect then about 15 seconds later in the video the tornado rips part of the dome off tossing hundreds up in the air while the announcer is saying whats going on play by play when the tornado tosses ppl up in the air and he shows the drawing and the instant replay then it goes to commercial, lmao

[mttornado]

When was this?

[gagemiller2010]

@mttornado March 14 , 2008

[jeabo0adhd]

Amazing structure to stand up to a tornado!!!

[Xylen]

Tornado: I WANNA PLAY

[myfireburns22]

In all seriousness, I found out that if the game DIDN'T go into overtime, thousands of people would've been in the street with the tornado right on top of them. Whoever made the game-tying shot may have saved thousands of lives

[112Desmond]

i was at arbor place mall/johney rockets wen dis happened n i heard da same noise

[ProZack91488]

they havent had the sec championship in basketball in atlanta since this happened.

[smoothoperator1986]

I wonder what would have happened if the

tornado hit Turner Field instead of the Georgia Dome???

[XXTHE12THMANXX]

If were there I would sh*t in my pants

[astupidbean]

i love how the announcer is pretty much doing a play-by-play on the tornado, hahaha

[marcelliversetti3]

LOL!

[GarshardJeVard]

I know!! He's like circling it and pointing things out. lol!!

[figget44]

lmao

[saraizbr00tal]

@astupidbean thats exactly what i was just thinking...

he even circles the ripples in the ceiling. haha!

[AnAscendingAngel]

@astupidbean lol ikr? he did the whole white pen and everything... what a pro!

[zequelll]

shouldnt of said tornado could of caused mass panic lol

[smoothoperator1986]

It could have ripped off the roof of the Georgia Dome!!!

[jayhoyt28]

@smoothoperator1986 Yeah 2 bad it didnt. This vid would have been much better.

[GamingPalooza]

0:05 the way the ref and the team looked up and stood still.. shocked... looks like they were seeing Godzilla

[1nm1]

the people there don't realize how fortunate they were the tornado wasn't any stronger than it was.

[GAdawgsfan93]

I wonder what they did to repair the large hole in the roof before football season back in 08. Knowing Georgia all my life we probably got a shitload of duck tape and did a temp. fix. John Madden would've been hilarious to see at the game. " Well, you see here that the roof is shaking because of this invisible stuff called wind. Then, the roof tore and sucked out people from the upper deck called rednecks into a funnel of doom. You know, this never would've happened if Brett Favre were here!"

[kinnay2102]

to crystalotk

it was a Tornado i was in a hotel 3 miles away from ATL and all TV programs said

"Tornado Touch down"

[r1ckr0b]

Nothing like going outside and finding random shit laying on your car... Zone 3

[vv6000]

i remebered that i seen it from my house

[SurpriseItzDJBen]

My parents had their convention there.

[vfIskullangel]

Sounds like a bunch of F-16's flying by!.

Thank god the roof didn't come off!.

[kissmydubs]

We had a suprise tornado in beaumont texas yesterday it was wack.

And to the person who said they would want to stay further south where hurricanes are ..Thats crazy. Living in Lake charles when Rita hit SUCKED shit was fucked up for weeks And in Texas when ike hit you should have seen houses in water up to the roof.

[laura20022004]

thats crazy

[lgtilwatp]

the georgia dome incedent could have been so much worse!

[Breeze34567]

yall thats not funny there was about a few deaths in that tornado I WAS EVEN IN IT so dont laugh! And there was ALOT of injuries 2!

[BbDle88]

Holy crap, you can see some of the people on the floor running like hell.

[MrChachi123]

It's a basketball game, that's what they do is run -_-

Hahahah, just kidding

[dninc]

Atlanta with it's surprise Tornado's is not a place I'd want to live in, i'd rather live further down south where at least Hurricanes you can get 5-7 Day warnings.

[LighthawkTenchi]

Hurricanes can, and often do, spawn tornadoes when they hit land. We get tornadoes here in south Florida, in fact, we had a few tornado warnings (Including a waterspout just offshore) just yesterday, and are getting another round of storms today. We definitely need the rain at least, but fortunately the tornadoes that spawn here are generally weaker than the monsters back up in the Midwest.

[DudeDie222]

What a low that was, possibly Subtrop Storm Ana. Soon.

[WWERocksfool]

no you should live in California we only have wildfires sometimes only in Summer, we have earthquakes in san jose and san fransisco and santa cruz, and san diego they have major ones but not stockton, and we have t-storms aka thunderstroms not many times though so you should ive in california

[crystalotk]

To all you dumbasses...It wasnt a hurricane...This was in March!!!!! ATL for life.

[fire289]

its are motor's and truss swinging in the air!! LOL

[gunnergahs]

I would've loved to hear John Madden's commentary on this if it was a Falcons game.

[Yankeefan69]

ha he does the play by play on the tornado lol

[guardiegirly]

hahahaha!!! he draws on the roof with the telestrator, thats great! hahaha

[dcm05002]

haha i love how he gives a play by play with that pen for the roof!!

[sqweaty]

If you cut out about the last 20 to 25 seconds, it could be the trailer to cloverfield part 2

[xxdeadkillaxx]

oh shit ur right

[Torreyhuff]

wow geonerd u must be goth or emo or something...?

[gystracing]

Well, in April of 1998, the F5 that hit Birmingham, hit just outside Atlanta, but died out before causing any severe damage.

[geonerd]

The tornado was fairly weak and didn't even make a direct hit on the dome. One of these days a large sporting event is going to be wiped out; hundreds / thousands will die. :(

[jessieheartsyou]

damn nature you scary

[Bronzzennsea4ever]

lol family guy

[area412]

i didnt know anythinguntil i watched fox 5 news in atlanta. that was the day a package came as a suspicion. the news reporters were there for the package and the tornado coverage

[pedro27mumble]

just shows how powerless we are to mother nature

[forum2cracka]

i think i need to go wiz wiz !!!!

[wongmylesa]

I WUZ DERE

[charlieboy1980]

I WOULD HAVE SHYTT!!!

[cron132]

corvette z3 it did do damage but it has been fixed

[Snailbarf]

lol leave it to the color guy to use the telestrater. to illustrate the effects.

"Here you can see the people getting sucked up into the vortex of death" (draws swirly pattern)

[Sanctimoniously]

Wow. . . hahahahahahaah. That's amazing.

[JayZoop]

cool view of the ceiling. Somebody else's video shows the whole in the wall.

[corvettez3]

did the tornado do any damage to the dome i had to leave like right when it started moving

[smokeassault117]

Too bad it didn't hit your Mentally Retarded head. Fucking FAG

[NiteOwl1224]

That is insane

[dccodring21]

Good job this didnt happen during the 1996 olympics, can you imagine with all those thousands of extra people around?

[gdfsob]

thewhoissuperb24 points out an obvious fact - the tornado did not directly strike the Georgia dome.....

If it had, you wouldv'e seen the roof ripped off, debris and people being sucked up & thrown around, nd a hell of a lot of injuries & more than a few deaths.

The fact that they didn't warn people until it was already passing them is inexcusable. Yet another reason to never trust the idiots who're generally in charge.

[ipodfan23]

well if u live in atlnta gdfsob the tornado did ripped threw the georgia dome .on the news it showed the ripp it was small on the news but it was very big in real life

[gdfsob]

Ipodfan, trust me - no matter how solidly the GD's built, if it had suffered a direct hit there would have been more damage than what here was, amd the roof would have been completely gone. Be lucky it wasn't a direct hit.

[ipodfan23]

ok u right

[beachbabe2329]

were there ppl screaming in the background?

[SenorSpode]

Considering that all redneck drunk drivers never die at the wheel of the accidents they cause, it's only natural that they designed the dome with the same principle in mind: Completely relaxed. The engineers there had thousands of examples to learn from just laying around.

[SCE2AUX]

Gotta hand it to the engineers and architects of the Georgia Dome.

[cmvp619]

I am jist glad a tornado has never hit my part of town, it has hit the western part though.

[distantmessenger]

Had to laugh as the announcer describes how the ceiling appears to 'ripple'. How the announcer was able to draw a circle on the screen is too funny! A better use for that hand would have been to telephone a loved one or to cover his head. I wouldn't have given the play-by-play of the tornado. I would have placed the palm of my hand against the palm of my other hand and got down on my knees and prayed. Not spent the possible last minute of my life drawing circles. That announcer is dedicated!

[stuffboutotherstuff]

lol the announcers were using the camera pen thingy to point out the hole in the ceiling

[NydusSageRyade]

lol. thatd been awesome. sitting in the dome. "Oh look. tornado. huh... thats nifty." haha.

...wouldnt have been so cool had it been an F-5 though O.o

[dragonridley]

Actually not so cool if it was an F-5.

[younganon]

i live in peachtree city and it is BLESSED! there has never been a tornado here. i pray for that.

[hogsfan73]

does anyone know if the twister passed directly over the top of the dome?

[xBLaZeDx420x]

idk if it went over the top but there was 1 in the heart of downtown atl the first EVER in Downtown

[justinaurelius]

You videotaped your TV screen? Video capture devices are about ten bucks, and the quality is perfect for youtube.

Just FYI.

[mrmaster728]

they actually drew the lines where the rippling was, hilarious!

[rabbitvvn90]

that's bone chilling freaky!!!! the same system that Formed That Tornado In Atlanta, Georgia Did the same thing in South Carolina On March 15 Afternoon, i was in downtown columbia when they issued A TORNADO WARNING FOR COLUMBIA, SC. My Girlfriend got injured. :-(

[cruzluna12345678]

I am so sorry I hope she is fine today 5/22/08

[ortega344]

i was were the hole was scary

[komahoby]

i was doing a tour in the cnn center when we heard noices. i got to take cover in the newsroom because we were on the visitors window. it was extremely scary.

[billionaire2003]

I was there too... I was shiting myself coz it was the tornado i had been involved in.

[JohnyRockets123]

I was there I was freaking out. :(

[leprincep35]

oui oui impressionnant

[pokecheats]

i was there also!!!!!!!!!!!it scare me 4 a sec

[tiff1028]

man that was scary

[RelentlessSon]

i was there!!!....it was so awesome....the place was like freaking out...

[blackaurora44]

The dome shape withstood very well...there's nothing for the wind to grab on to.

[MickQuick07]

lol that'd be scary, but i love how the announcers are just commentating like its somewhat normal, circling the ceiling lol

[thexmanx]

they must see things like that everday lol XD

[dakoda5]

it woulda been sweet if tht beam let go

[jets7641]

this is old get new stuff

[wesdean80]

holy crap!!!!!!!

did you see that big metal bar moving back and forth when he went to the ceiling shot!

it reminded me of a universal ride or sometin

[rig48]

that is scary as shit!!!!!!!!

[X360H911]

dude that would be fricin scary being traped in a dome when theres a tornado coming!

[Pinkpada]

it did sound like a tornado!

[thirdshift47]

Sonny Perdue prays for rain.God sends him a Tornado.

[ciabattaman10]

LOL

[whheelman345]

well Sonny Purdue is retarded since he sold our water to florida like a year ago and now we have no water i mean have u seen lake lanier?

[iaintgonletup]

Thank God that game went into over time, otherwise there would have been lives lost.

[Brian211978]

could you imagine the chaos if this was an F-4or an F-5 tornado? Imagine the roof being blown off. Cause that's EXACTLY what would have happened. Everyone was VERY lucky. Not to neglect the fact the game went into overtime. How much luck was that?

[Brian211978]

ALL RIGHTY THEN! MAJOR FREAKY!