The tornado continued to the northeast into the Power Community. A newly built 67,500 square foot warehouse was “completely dismantled and tossed in a wooded area a couple of hundred yards downwind.”
“Loaded 18-wheelers were tossed around like toys.”
On Highway 84, the tornado damaged Northeast Jones High School. After this point, the tornado diminished in size and intensity. It moved out of Jones County into extreme NW Wayne County and dissipated in the Beaver Dam Community in extreme SW Clarke County.
Final numbers: 28.5 million dollars in damage. Per Storm Data, “this number would have been much greater had the tornado not traveled through such rural country.” No incorporated towns were hit. 13 businesses, 220 homes, 149 mobile homes, and one apartment building destroyed. A total of 653 structures were affected. About 700 were left homeless. Close to 1600 students ha to attend classes elsewhere due to the extreme damage to the school.
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