{"id":199793,"date":"2026-03-11T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199793\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:39:10","slug":"severe-storms-bring-reported-tornado-large-hail-to-areas-west-of-san-antonio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199793\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe storms bring reported tornado, large hail to areas west of San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Communities west of San Antonio are cleaning up after a rough night of severe weather that brought a reported tornado, damaging hail and strong storms across parts of South Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Storms moved through the region late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, bringing dangerous weather to several counties west of San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials reported a tornado touchdown in Kinney County, while residents near Leakey experienced several powerful hailstorms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some of the hail reported near Leakey was described as grapefruit-sized, large enough to damage vehicles, roofs and windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The storms are part of a system that meteorologists had warned could bring multiple severe weather threats, including hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As daylight arrives, crews and residents across the area are expected to begin assessing damage and cleaning up debris left behind by the overnight storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, KENS 5 crews are on the road gathering a closer look at conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reporter Rania Kaur traveled in the KENS 5 Weather Tracker toward Leakey to survey the damage and conditions following the storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials are continuing to monitor the situation and are reminding residents to stay alert for changing weather conditions and watch for storm debris on roadways as cleanup begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communities west of San Antonio are cleaning up after a rough night of severe weather that brought a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78873,12274,14344,82,84,83,4375,14401,78872,8346],"class_list":["post-199793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-dangerous-weather","tag-hail","tag-kinney-county","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-strong-storms","tag-tornado-touchdown","tag-weather-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}