MOULTRIE, Ga. — An EF-1 tornado that touched down Sunday afternoon in Colquitt County damaged houses, outbuildings and farm equipment and downed trees, with one farmer suffering damage in all four of those categories.

The twister, which had top winds of 110 miles per hour, cut a five-mile-long path through the county, according to the National Weather Service office in Tallahassee.

Although there was some severe property damage, no injuries were reported.

It touched down at about 2:43 p.m. south of Moultrie near the intersection of Plymel and Tallokas roads and ended about six minutes later near the intersection of Gibbs Road and Highway 133, according to a NWS assessment released Monday afternoon.

Colquitt County farmer Lavon Stripling was hit hard. The tornado downed some of his pine trees, overturned parts of his irrigation system, damaged a Gibbs Road house that he rents out, and destroyed a shed covering his timber.

“I was just sitting there watching TV and the wind got up,” said Jerome McBride, 62, who rents the 270 Gibbs Road residence from Stripling. “It was all, like, heavy rain. That’s all it was, just sitting there watching a movie and boom. I just saw the roof coming aloose. That’s all I seen.”

The twister ripped the front porch from the homemade-block residence built in the 1940s and tore off the roof. The porch and tin from the roof ended up twisted up with a pecan tree in the back yard that also was blown over by the storm.

McBride, an employee of Stripling’s, had a place to stay, and on Monday was trying to determine whether his bedding and appliances could be salvaged. In addition to removing the roof the wind also ripped nearly all the interior dry wall from the walls.

Stripling was arranging Monday to have the roof replaced.

McBride said he had no warning prior to the storm, which amazingly didn’t break any windows or damage the doors.

“The wind was just whooping,” he said.

Two other inhabited houses were damaged, including one listed as destroyed in the 4900 block of Tallokas Road, said Colquitt County Emergency Management Director Russell Moody.

“It blew half the upstairs off,” he said.

A fourth — an unoccupied, old farm house — had a tree fall on the roof, he said.

“There were a lot of barns damaged throughout the area,” Moody said. “Two (irrigation) pivots were turned over.”

The twister was not on the ground over the entire path, which spared other homes.

“It bounced,” Moody said. “It was just touching down here and there. It was just fortunate it didn’t stay on the ground a long time.”

With the possibility of another big storm system moving through later in the week, Moody advised residents to keep their eye on the conditions and take precautions if necessary.

“Everybody just needs to pay attention to the weather,” he said.