All summer long, on BR Lightning Ranch in Hill County, a few miles from downtown Bandera, the Summer Buckle Series Rodeo hosts weekly events such as bull riding, calf roping and steer riding.

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When the cloud's maximum altitude was less than 5km (3 miles), ATDnet detected no lightning from it.

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