PHOTOS: A look back at the 2008 Downtown Atlanta tornado
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Damage in Cabbage Town area.
Unidentified workers clear up the mess at a public parking lot near Centennial Olympic Park.
Damage to homes in Vine City from 2008 Atlanta tornado.
Windows were seen blown out at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in downtown Atlanta.
Downtown Atlanta including Centennial Park, CNN Center, the Georgia Dome and this Philips Arena sign were damaged. Debris littered the streets of downtown and surrounding areas.
Damage was easy to see on Saturday afternoon at the Omni Hotel at CNN. Most guests were evacuated to the basement as Friday night's tornado blasted downtown.
Roof damage at the World Congress Center.
The Atlanta skyline as seen from the Omni Hotel days after the downtown tornado hit. Most companies at tornado-damaged downtown office buildings were open Monday, although it was anything from a normal start to the work week.
Large trees fallen on homes in Cabbage Town area.
Cotton Mill Lofts. Roof was removed by the tornado and portions of the top floors collapsed all the way to the basement.
Damaged building just east of CNN Center.
Channel 2 Action News covered the tornadoes of March 2008.
Michael Wesley leaned into his destroyed car on Nassau Street in downtown Atlanta.
Many residents of Cabbagetown, one of the hardest hit areas, awoke in shock to scenes like the damage at the Cotton Mills.
Another notable landmark in the Atlanta skyscape is the Equitable Building, which withstood dozens of broken windows.
Larry McCuller, 60, from Decatur oversees work on his brother's East Atlanta home that was damaged. Volunteers from across Atlanta helped with the cleanup on Glenwood Avenue.
An Atlanta police officer directed traffic downtown the Monday after the tornado. Downed traffic lights made commuting difficult downtown.
One of the large decorative lights surrounding Centennial Olympic Park is blown over and destroyed. Witnesses said it was like a train going down Marietta Street, which fronts CNN Center.
Elaine Jelks (right) and her husband James Doss show their distress over the tornado damage to their apartment in Vine City on Sunday, March 16. After suffering damage caused by the storm, Jelks apartment was then broken into.
The Fulton Cotton Mill lofts in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta show heavy damage shortly after the storm rolled through. The Cabbagetown area was particularly hard-hit.
The Herndon Building, a 1924 office complex in downtown Atlanta, was damaged by the storm and was demolished April 17.
Sunday, March 16, 2008: Gov. Sonny Perdue inspected damage at the Georgia World Congress Center.
Debris flies inside the Georgia Dome.
Basketball fans at the Georgia Dome looked up at damage to the roof in the minutes following the tornado downtown. Play at the men's SEC basketball tournament was stopped. Games were moved the following day to Georgia Tech.
A visitor to Atlanta's Omni Hotel surveys damage from a room.
A downed tree was among graves in Oakland Cemetery. Sam Reed, sexton of Oakland Cemetery, said he was in the cemetery's bell tower when high winds hit the previoius night. He said 50 to 60 trees in the cemetery were damaged or destroyed.
Gabrielle Mertz makes a call from her Cabbagetown home on Berean Avenue. An uprooted tree sits in her front yard, and she said much of the contents of her upstairs bedroom was sucked out a window.
People survey damage to the Fulton Cotton Mill lofts from DeKalb Avenue in Atlanta.
