The Cobb County School District said late Wednesday afternoon that Thursday classes will be remote due to impending severe weather.
The district said in a release at 6:20 p.m. that the decision was made “to protect students and staff who would be traveling to school during the worst weather conditions.”
The National Weather Service in Atlanta issued an advisory Wednesday afternoon indicated that a severe thunderstorm system making its way through Mississippi and Alabama was expected to reach Georgia overnight, and in metro Atlanta in particular between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. Thursday.
“We often talk about the safety of Cobb students and staff being our highest priority. Avoiding the dangers associated with severe weather when students are riding buses and staff are driving to work is an example of that priority,” the district statement said.
The severe weather advisory includes the possibility of tornadoes, high winds and hail as well as flooding.
There have been tornado warnings in most of Alabama and Mississippi on Wednesday, and reports of hail.
A tornado warning was in effect late Wednesday afternoon in Birmingham and central Alabama, and a confirmed tornado in Chilton County, Ala., near Montgomery.
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