Reported tornado damages businesses in Hawthorne

RENO — A tornado ripped through the Nevada town of Hawthorne on Friday afternoon, damaging homes and businesses, causing scattered power outages and temporarily shutting down a highway. No injuries were reported. Mineral County Undersheriff Bill Ferguson says the 3:30 p.m. tornado started east of Hawthorne, about 140 miles southeast of Reno, and swept west along U.S. Highway 95, damaging five businesses and four or five homes, three of them severely. He says the roofs were blown off two homes