Helpers try to recover the contents from the trailer that was destroyed at 3300 Chic Road on Friday afternoon.

Also destroyed was a center pivot irrigation system, which was sitting near the trailer.

No one was injured in the tornado, but several witnesses said they were scared when the vortex formed and dropped to the ground. The Dyer County Sheriff's Department reported a 911 call about the damage at 4:33 p.m.

J.B. Kiddy was watching the threatening skies next to a pickup truck parked at the south end of his mother's trailer at 3347 Chic Rd. when he was pushed by the wind against the vehicle.

"I was holding on to the truck," said Kiddy. "It was moving up and down."

Kiddy's mother, Carrie, said she was in a car and had pulled out onto Chic Road when she saw the darkening sky.

"Something didn't feel right," she said. "So I stopped the car and drove back home. Turns out had I gone on, the tornado would've got me."

She ran into the trailer and told three of her grandchildren to get to the a room built onto the back of the trailer, get on the floor and cover their heads.

About a half-mile south on Chic Road, across the path of destruction, Dwayne Hunt Jr. watched the vortex form silently from the clouds rolling overhead.

"It looked like it was trying to come down as it came across the [Mississippi] river," said Hunt. "Then it dropped to the ground."

When the tornado touched down, it ripped the back porch off the house at 3300 Chic Rd. and tossed it about 300 feet east, across the road. The tornado then hit the trailer, owned by James Vestal, and scraped it across the ground.

Vestal and family members were able to retrieve items from the trailer, though some were water damaged or had been broken by the wind.

A Forked Deer Electric Cooperative crew was working to restore power to the line after a transformer and connections had been blown to the ground.

A Dyer County Highway Department backhoe works to remove a fallen elm tree from across Chic Road. The back porch of the white house was ripped apart and deposited on the other side of the road. No one was home at the time of the tornado.

An elm tree was ripped down across Chic Road, preventing travel until Dyer County Highway Department workers sawed the giant tree apart and removed the limbs.