Radar with warning overlay for Atlanta Tornado, Mar. 14, '08

This is composite radar loop of the March 14, 2008 tornado in Atlanta, Georgia with an overlay of thunderstorm warnings (orange), and tornado warnings (red). Some important points to note in the loop are the timing of when the warnings were issued (note timestamps on the bottom left corner of loop) versus the location of the storms. An additional point, and probably more important is notice the tornado watch (box) pop up at the bottom left of the screen at the end of the loop (timestamp 00.12). However a tornado watch was NEVER issued for the Atlanta area; either before, during, or after the tornado and associated storms moved through the area. I have made the loop 'slow enough' that you can easily distinguish the timing on warnings versus storm location etc. Tornado watches are issued by the SPC (storm prediction center) only, and each individual NWS office is responsible for thunderstorm / tornado warnings.

note source of images:
http://mapcenter.hamweather.net/radar/

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[NicoleLovesMusic89]

Scary, you can see where the warning outline turns dark red, probably signifying a tornado emergency.

[WolfGuy100]

Nice video. It's still unusual that tornado went from NW to SE and outside of forecast severe storm area with tornado chance of 2%. I remembered watching SEC Finals on TV when that happened.

[traderjoe777]

An interesting radar clip...nice isolated development for plenty of good inflow, and a rightward component to the forward motion as well. Atlanta should have had lots of advance warning with this supercell, and it seems unconscionable that the basketball fans down at the Dome were not evacuated well in advance of the storm.

[psshhtmr2]

Yea, for some reason Memphis is getting alot of tornadoes and bad storms too. We got really bad hail last night. We had some pretty bad tornadoes a couple weeks ago. I heard the chinese have made a weather machine or something where they can alter the weather for the Olympics and other events. What if that has something to do with it?

[CrowleysGhost]

Yeah, there should have been at least a watch if not a warning once the first one hit. The outflow boundary alone could have popped more up, with so much instability present. I wonder where the doppler itself is located? Maybe they just didn't "see" it coming, esp. with no classic hook echoes and you don't expect it to hit in the center of a major city? I don't know.

[bjessup4]

wow. they got hit three times. imagine having your home's roof torn off and having to go through 2 more storms while getting stormed on

[GruntofAction]

Its been almost every year.

[Philliefan69]

Atlanta is a thunderstorm magnet this year

[Pyrotech56]

About 10-15 minutes of lead time for the tornado warning, or close to the national average of 13 minutes. The NWS local storm report listed 9:40 pm, CNN reported it hit at "about 9:45 pm."

[jcragle08]

damn!! back to back to back.. all 3 go right over atl