Hightower Tornado - April 5, 2017

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Hightower EF-0 Tornado (Cleburne County)
April 5, 2017

Event Summary

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed the damage and determined that a brief tornado touched down. The tornado hit a chicken house along County Road 10, removing portions of the chicken house roof and scattering it across the nearby pasture. A nearby resident captured the small rope tornado on video.

Rating: (Click for EF Scale)	EF-0
Estimated Maximum Wind:	60 mph
Injuries/Fatalities:	None
Damage Path Length:	0.25 miles
Maximum Path Width:	75 yards
Approximate Start Point/Time:	3 S Trickum 33.5342/-85.3868 at 4:44 pm CDT
Approximate End Point/Time:	3 WSW Ranburne 33.5344/-85.3924 at 4:45 pm CDT

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Reflectivity (left) and Velocity (right). Images are from KFFC at 4:39 pm CST.

Chicken house damaged

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