As a record storm swept South Central Texas Wednesday morning, July 15, sending streams rising and dousing the region with inches of rain across San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country, a tornado touched down on the Northside of the Alamo City. It etched a path of destruction from UTSA Boulevard to The RIM shopping center.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not familiar with tornadoes, not at all,\u201d Todd King told MySA from a sidewalk near the Tribute at The RIM apartments, which were notably hit by the tornado. \u201cAll these downed trees. We\u2019ve got a sign here on the ground \u2013 I mean, this was some serious stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
The roof was torn off the Oasis Apartments along UTSA Boulevard; letters were ripped off a Marshalls above a caved-in front door; and the Santikos\u00a0Palladium Theater had rubble strewn across the front after the strong winds ripped off the fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n
Eric Platt, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service San Antonio-Austin office, confirmed with MySA this morning that a tornado touched down near the luxurious Dominion neighborhood and moved north toward Leon Springs. However, it will likely be days before NWS investigators finalize details of the tornado\u2019s path and impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat won\u2019t take place for a while until we can get out there on a survey,\u201d NWS meteorologist Jason Runyen told MySA. \u201cThere probably won\u2019t be a rating on a tornado for a while until we can get out there and survey the damage\u2026 The county and the city are still assessing all the damage, so it\u2019s very, very preliminary stuff that\u2019s coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a record storm swept South Central Texas Wednesday morning, July 15, sending streams rising and dousing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[820,3091,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-374831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysawx","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\/374831","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=374831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}