It's official: Tornado hit Stilson

Seven hurt as storm rakes area

Keith Egan, facing, tells neighbor Mike Clifton about his family's experience as a tornado touched down and destroyed their car port and their vehicles at their Old River Road home near Lillie Hagan Road around 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning. None of Egan's family, who all took shelter in the house, were injured, but several neighbors were. "It only lasted about 45 seconds, but it was the most scared I've been in my life," said Egan.

W 020917 TORNADO 01 — Keith Egan, facing, tells neighbor Mike Clifton about his family's experience as a tornado touched down and destroyed their car port and their vehicles at their Old River Road home near Lillie Hagan Road around 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning. None of Egan's family, who all took shelter in the house, were injured, but several neighbors were. "It only lasted about 45 seconds, but it was the most scared I've been in my life," said Egan.

The storm that ravaged the Stilson community in southern Bulloch County early Thursday morning was determined to be a tornado. “It was an F1 tornado with some F2 tornadic activity,” said Bulloch County Public Safety Director Ted Wynn, after spending hours with National Weather Service investigators Thursday, viewing damage caused by the storm. The twister damaged several homes in the Lillie Hagan Road and Old River Road South area and sent seven people to the hospital, Wynn said.

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