LAWRENCE TWP., N.J. — A raging, windy tornado storm hit Lawrence Square Village condominium homes Tuesday afternoon, leaving behind very dangerous and hazardous lingering effects.
The storm that damaged the West Windsor, and Quaker Bridge area in Lawrence Township uprooted trees, ripped off rooftops, tore up shingles, zinc and tin sidings, ceilings in breezeways, and left many sharp-sided and metallic building materials hanging from ceilings, and blowing all over the neighborhoods.
Blog video – Tornado twister in Lawrence Tuesday
One neighbor said, “I was alone at home…” when all this was happening right outside my home.
NJ.com reports below that tornadoes are unusual for this time of the year:
Rare February tornadoes
Tornadoes are rare in the New Jersey region during the month of February, when temperatures are normally cold and strong thunderstorms typically don’t develop. 
However, weather service records show four twisters touching down in the Garden State in February since 1950, with the most recent occurrence — prior to Tuesday’s tornado — in 1999.
In that occurrence, a small tornado touched down in Cherry Hill in Camden County on Feb. 12, 1999.
Three small tornadoes were reported in Hunterdon County on Feb. 2, 1973, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm Events Database. One touched down on a farm in Tewksbury, one 2 miles east of Lebanon and one 2 miles northwest of Califon.