

Without warning, a tornado flipped the car of 80-year-old Lois Johnson while she and two passengers were stopped at a red light in Seneca, South Carolina, on April 11. Had this game not gone into overtime, thousands of attendees would have been in the streets headed for their vehicles or public transportation," the National Weather Service Peachtree City reported.Ĭommentary: The 2008 tornado had everyone terrifiedĨ0-year-old woman and 2 friends avoid serious injury as car flips across road

"The tornado's path was just barely north of the Dome. It could have been so much worse had the game ended on time. Another 30 were injured as the tornado churned a 6-mile-long and 200-yard-wide path through the city. One person died about a mile and a half from the Georgia Dome outside a light rail station. Part of the arena was damaged by the twister. The National Weather Service reported the tornado's path was barely north of where the game was being played. That shot might have saved lives as an EF2 tornado ripped through Atlanta. On March 14, 2008, a University of Alabama player nailed a fade-away three-point shot to send the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament quarterfinals game against Mississippi State University to overtime. A weather warning is displayed on a television screen hanging near the basketball court.
