Update as of 6:15 p.m.: The tornado warning issues for the area has been extended to 7 p.m. to include St. Hedwig, Santa Clara and New Hedwig east of San Antonio near I-10.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another tornado warning<\/a> has been issued for the San Antonio area. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued the warning for Elmendorf and La Vernia until 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n “At 5:34 p.m., a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado\u00a0was located over\u00a0Elmendorf, or 10 miles northwest of Floresville,\u00a0moving northeast at 10 miles per hour,” NWS said.<\/p>\n If you’re in the path of this forecasters are urging residents to seek shelter now.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Take cover now! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a\u00a0mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter\u00a0and protect yourself from flying debris,” NWS said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The alert follows a tornado warning issued around 4 p.m. Wednesday and a confirmed tornado that touched down earlier that morning near The Rim and I-10. The tornado left a path of destruction<\/a> as it went through popular shopping center and even hit residential spaces off UTSA Boulevard<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update as of 6:15 p.m.: The tornado warning issues for the area has been extended to 7 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-374774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374774","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=374774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}