Severe storm lifts barn onto highway

SUNDERLAND, Mass. (WWLP) - Sunday's severe weather caused big trouble in the town of Sunderland.

Sunderland Fire Chief Robert Ahearn told 22News high winds picked up a tobacco barn and moved it into the middle of Route 47, one mile south of the center of town.

"We started to see a brownish grayish greenish spinning object in the air and it was pulling shingles off the tobacco barn roof, at which point we dipped back into the station we realized it was a tornado, we believed, and at that point, approximately 5 minutes later, we came out, and the entire tobacco barn behind me was laying in the middle of Rt. 47," said Officer Joshua Harris, Sunderland Police Department.

Highway department crews have removed the barn. Route 47 has since reopened.