THOMASVILLE — Officials in Thomas and Grady counties are still calculating the toll of Friday’s severe weather but say the damage appears to be limited.

Chris Jones, director of the Thomas County Emergency Management Agency, said there were no reports of structural damage related to the storm.

“I’m not expecting any reports of that,” he said late Friday morning. “If anything, there may be an isolated incident.”

Jones said approximately 475 meters in Thomas County were without power based on combined figures from Grady EMC and Georgia Power, but noted that that number was constantly fluctuating in the immediate aftermath of the storm.

“Sometimes it’ll get 15 or 20 or 40 back online and then they may lose a few more somewhere else as a tree falls,” he said. “That number is continuously changing.”

Jones said there were some downed trees, mainly in rural areas of Thomas County.

The only road blockage Thomas County EMA officials were aware of was on Harts Mill Road and Salem Road near Pavo.

In Grady County, the damage appeared to be almost non-existent, with no storm-related emergency calls made at all Friday morning.

“We’ve just had a few trees down,” said Richard Phillips, director of the Grady County Emergency Management Agency. “Other than that, we’ve had no major damage.”

Phillips said no roads appeared to be disrupted or structures damaged throughout Grady County.

At the storm’s peak, the National Weather Service in Tallahassee issued a tornado warning in a region encompassing Thomasville, Ochlocknee, Pine Park and Dawesville, which was lifted at 9:45 a.m.

“Probably from 6:45 or 7 o’clock all the way up to the time that we received the tornado warning we had been watching that one particular cell,” Jones said. “It started either in Franklin or Liberty County (Florida) with a tornado warning on that particular cell that had some rotation in it and it traveled quite a way.”

An official at the NWS stated they were still determining if any tornadoes made landfall during the height of the storm.

Phillips said as far as he was aware, there were no tornadoes in Grady.

“Nothing hit the ground or anything in Grady County,” he said. “(Highway) 319 had a little rotation down there but nothing formed.”

Heading into the week, meteorologists were anticipating a widespread severe weather event Thursday night or Friday morning with possible wind gusts of up to 80 mph which would move west to east across Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

By Thursday afternoon, the NWS had determined the bulk of the storm would likely pass through the region Friday morning and schools across Thomas and Grady counties were closed in anticipation of the severe weather.

Jones said that from the weather station located on Remington Avenue in Thomasville the peak wind speeds throughout the morning were clocked at approximately 29 mph, but cautioned that individual pockets may have had more powerful gusts weren’t calculated.

“Although we only saw 29 mph at the Remington Avenue station, in the Ochlocknee area they may have had some 40 or 50 mph winds up there,” he said. “That’s one of the things we try to remind people continuously about weather statements and weather briefings.”

Jones stressed after the storm that having family disaster plans in place is key year-round, not just during hurricane season.

The Thomas County EMA director encouraged residents to keep an emergency supply kit with water and a plan in place for individuals with medical needs that require continuous electricity.

In Jones’ view, the storm could have been much worse.

“This particular line of storms had all the key ingredients to be a major event for Thomasville and Thomas County,” he said. “We easily could have had people without utilities for two if not three or four days.”