Tornado hits downtown Atlanta (Gallery 1)

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Tornado hits downtown Atlanta (Gallery 1)

Tornado hits downtown Atlanta, damages Georgia Dome. Gallery No. 1.

One of the large decorative lights surrounding Centennial Park, one of the city's signatures, is blown over and destroyed. Downtown Atlanta including Centennial Park, CNN Center and the Georgia Dome was damaged by a severe storm that hit the core of the city around 10 p.m., Friday. Witnesses said it was like a train going down Marietta Street, which fronts CNN Center. Property damage was extensive along the east.

Downtown Atlanta including CNN Center , Centennial Park, and the Georgia Dome were damaged

An injured woman is tended to inside the motor lobby of the Omni hotel in downtown following the storm.

Firefighters survey the scene on Marietta Street in downtown Atlanta.

Many downtown streets were blocked off by police, including Ivan Allen Boulevard adjacent to the Georgia Aquarium.

Fans check out the damage, while the SEC tournament is delayed.

Curtains hang out of the blown-out windows at the Omni hotel after Friday night's damaging storm.

A weather warning is displayed on a television screen hanging near the basketball court in the Georgia Dome after a wind storm halted the Mississippi State-Alabama game during overtime.

Personnel inside the Georgia Dome scramble toward a breach in the ceiling and wall as downtown Atlanta including Centennial Park, CNN Center when it was damaged by a severe storm that hit the core of the city around 10:00pm Friday night.

Rhonda Mullins, of Canton, talks to her husband on the phone while waiting in the basement of the Omni Hotel in downtown Atlanta for the all clear following sever weather that rolled through Friday night. Mullins was at the hotel for a dental convention.

Downtown Atlanta including Centennial Park, CNN Center the Georgia Dome and this building at Nassau Street adjacent to International was damaged by a severe storm that hit the core of the city.

Nick Ramseyy, a writer with cnni (cnn international) surveys the damage through a blown out window in the cnn.com newsroom Friday night in downtown Atlanta following a storm.

The Philips Arena sign suffered damage during the storm.

The storm was strong enough to cause a hole in the roof of the Georgia Dome.

Water pours down the steps at the Georgia World Congress Center in the aftermath of the storm.

Debris flies as high winds hit the Georgia Dome on Friday night during the Missippi State-Alabama basketball game at the SEC tournament.

Matthew Michel looks out of the blown-out window on in his hotel room at the Omni on Friday night after a storm rolled through causing extensive damage. Michel, who is from Kentucky, was in town to attend the SEC basketball tournament.

This view from the Omni Hotel shows some of the damage sustained in downtown Atlanta including Centennial Park, CNN Center and the Georgia Dome.

Car windows were no match for Friday night's storm.

Twisted steel from a large billboard shows the wrath of the storm.

A building on Nassau Street adjacent to Techwood Drive crumbled onto a nearby car.

A building on Nassau Street adjacent to Techwood Drive crumbled onto nearby cars when Centennial Park, CNN Center and the Georgia Dome were damaged.

Barricades are overturned in front of the Georgia World Congress Center, next to the Georgia Dome.

Visitors to the downtown area pick their way through debris in front of the CNN Center after a sever storm ripped through downtown Atlanta on Friday.

A storm sure can make a mess.

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One of the large decorative lights surrounding Centennial Park, one of the city's signatures, is blown over and destroyed. Downtown Atlanta including Centennial Park, CNN Center and the Georgia Dome was damaged by a severe storm that hit the core of the city around 10 p.m., Friday. Witnesses said it was like a train going down Marietta Street, which fronts CNN Center. Property damage was extensive along the east.

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