A crew from the National Weather Service confirmed last week that a tornado touched down at one location in Fayette County during Wednesday night's storms from the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy.

And an area resident may have spotted that same tornado just north of Woolsey.

The twister touched down in the Hilo Road area around 9 p.m., cutting a path about a mile long and a quarter-mile wide, according to an NWS report. The area was hit by numerous downed trees which struck houses and vehicles.

NWS officials estimated the storm to have the lowest force on the Fujiita scale for measuring tornado forces: F0.

A motorist spotted what may have been that tornado as he and his wife were driving south on Ga. Highway 92 just north of Woolsey. A tell-tale cloud caused Gary Paul Johnson to turn his car around, and that's when the couple spotted the tornado.

"It had trees and debris flying around in it," Johnson said in an e-mail to The Citizen.

The couple's truck began to move and shake, and the Johnsons "proceeded at high speed