 Media Credit: MARIA KELLY Students gather in the basement of Snelling Tuesday for lunch when the tornado warning was issued. Students stayed for about a half an hour while bonding over packaged food.
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 Media Credit: JASON BROOM Students gather on the first floor of the Student Learning Center following the tornado alert. [Click to enlarge]
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The University's tornado alarm system sounded around 2:10 p.m. when a weather cell located over southwest Oconee County tightened rotation.
"A broad and weak circulation tightened up real quick," said Mike Griesinger, meteorologist at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City.
UGA Alert sent text messages warning students to take shelter at 2:18, phone calls three minutes later and an e-mail message another three minutes later.
Across campus, students in the Student Learning Center and Snelling Dining Hall were evacuated to the lowest floors. Campus Transit buses stopped running momentarily, according to the University Police scanner.
The warning was discontinued at 2:34 p.m. through text message, and all-clear messages were sent through the phone at 2:39 and e-mail at 3:13.
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Fair Question
posted 8/26/08 @ 7:35 PM EST
I'm not going to be critical just to be critical of UGA-Alert, but I'm curious as to how the system works. Here's what we know (via the article and the National Weather Service)
-The National Weather Service actually issued the tornado warning for Athens-Clarke at 2:01 pm. (Continued…)
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