It’s a common myth that tornadoes don’t hit large cities, but that's simply not true -- they are just less common. Here's why.
, where an NCAA basketball game – part of the Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament – was being played between the University of Alabama and Mississippi State University.
"As Alabama hit its buzzer-beater to send the game into overtime, the EF-2 tornado began its descent into downtown Atlanta, causing ato the city," said FOX Weather meteorologist Tavyen Matthews, who lived in Atlanta at the time. The NWS estimated the tornado had maximum winds of 130 mph. One person was killed in a building collapse, andAn Atlanta warehouse near Interstate 20 and the McPherson Avenue MARTA station was damaged by an EF-2 tornado on March 14, 2008.
"Many speculate the buzzer-beater was the saving grace of many people’s lives that day because, had the game ended, there would have been many more people on the road and in the path of this dangerous tornado," Matthews said. Five days past the ten-year anniversary of that tornado, there was an extremely close call on March 19, 2018, when an
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