Tornado Confirmed In Upson County

A tornado touched down in Upson County Wednesday night completely destroying a structure on Weems Road. Several other houses were damaged and many trees were snapped off about 15 feet above the ground or blown down and scattered in a typical tornado pattern.

No injuries were reported although witnesses described the storm as being very intense for the few moments that it passed through their yards.

One house at the corner of Day Road and Gail Lane lost the roof and trees were down along the mountain ridge separating Upson and Pike counties.

Upson EMC worked through the night to replace utility poles and power lines that blocked both Atwater and Weems Roads.

The supercell thunderstorm that spawned the tornado was part of the line that moved out of Alabama and into Harris County before traveling across Meriwether, Upson, Pike and into Lamar County.

Home on Weems Road in Upson County.