Tornado on the ground - Western Atlanta Suburbs - take cover now!

WSB-TV/DT Atlanta

[mhking]

Southern Polk County, southwest of Rockmart - Tornado Warning for Polk & Haralson Counties

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Paulding County - storm over Dallas and Hiram; showing rotation - possible Tornado Warning shortly for Paulding & Cobb counties

[mhking]

WSB-TV: storms are merging near the Cobb/Paulding line and extending northeastward between Marietta and Kennesaw...

(for those familiar, figure north of the North Loop at 75 up to the 575-Barrett Pkwy area).

[dansangel]

Monitoring doppler from NOAA...there's a mess headed for Columbus. Then, it looks like it'll be in Macon shortly after.

[mhking]

does that station stream video?

Nope...[sigh]

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Just the Governors Mansion.

[theophilusscribe]

CBS makes it look closer to Sadie than Hiram?

[mikegi]

I'm watching the local channels. I live in south Forsyth county or about 50mi ENE of the possible tornado. Tornadoes usually move along a Canton to Gainesville line, which is about 10-15mi north of us. We're usually spared the big hail and damage.

Looks like the storm is weakening.

[mhking]

Cobb/Paulding Counties Tornado Warning extended to 7:20; towns in path include Powder Springs, Austell, Mableton, Smyrna.

[theophilusscribe]

278 stopped or very, very slow.

[Merdoug]

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[mhking]

Looks like the storm is weakening.

Some, but they're still scared of straight-line winds...

[dansangel]

If it stays on course, it's going to blow through Roswell (N. Fulton) and Norcross (Gwinnett) where we are.

[Merdoug]

The storm heading for Atlanta looks a little "hookish"

[chuknospam]

Magnets nothin! Them trailer parks is what causes all them tornados.

I agree, the vast concentration of metal boxes in an interupted pattern act as a giant slot antenna altering the geomagnetic field thereby serving to generate tornadic activity as well as drawing tornadic activity into their vicinity. I propose a research project, lets go to Oklahoma or Texas and place clusters of unoccupied mobile homes in a huge grid covering a hundred of miles or so and do a statistical study of the affinity of tornadic activity to those trailer clusters. Perhaps we can develop, as a result of the research, tornado decoys.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

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[mhking]

If it stays on course, it's going to blow through Roswell (N. Fulton) and Norcross (Gwinnett) where we are.

Yep. WSB-TV using telestrator on chopper camera view of storm to show the rotation of the clouds on this storm over Paulding & Cobb.

Tracking Smyrna, Vinings, Sandy Springs, Buckhead.

[mhking]

The storm heading for Atlanta looks a little "hookish"

That's the one that we've gotta watch here...

[mikegi]

Imagine a line connecting Atlanta to Gainesville. Midway along that line is where I live. Forsyth county is the one just in the clear with flat W and N edges (Chattahoochee river makes the irregular E side). I live in the southern tip of the county.

This current storm looks to move south of us but I'm more concerned about the stuff along the Alabama border. There are numerous tornado warnings associated with those storms and they are moving in our direction. They come across Rome, GA then through Canton towards Suwanee.

[mhking]

Clouds starting to get dark here...

[dansangel]

We're at 1:00 on the outer loop. It's very dark and getting darker by the minute....

[theophilusscribe]

tornado decoys

Ok, that is HILARIOUS! You could probably get a government grant!