first confirmed tornado,<\/a> which carved a 4-mile path through Northwest San Antonio, damaging homes and businesses from the area near the University of Texas-San Antonio to The Rim shopping center. The two newly confirmed tornadoes bring Bexar County’s total tornado count on July 15 to three.<\/p>\nTornado No. 1: According to the National Weather Service\u2019s report, a weak tornado touched down on the northeast side of downtown San Antonio, near the Digowity Hill district, at 5:20 a.m. July 15. The tornado was on the ground for only 0.29 miles and had maximum winds of 65 mph.<\/p>\n
The tornado started near the intersection of Burleson and North Olive streets and traveled northeast to the intersection of Milam and North Mesquite Street. Damage was minor, but included a damaged tin roof and a partially collapsed brick facade.<\/p>\n
Tornado No. 2: This tornado touched down at 4:25 p.m., about 4 miles south of China Grove in southeast Bexar County. This twister was only on the ground for 0.12 miles \u2013 or about 600 feet \u2013 and also produced maximum winds of 65 mph.<\/p>\n
\u201cStorm chaser footage confirmed a tornado briefly touched down north of Burshard Road and west of Gardner Road,\u201d the National Weather Service reported. \u201cThe tornado remained over open land, however a fence was reported damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service confirmed two more weak tornadoes that touched down in\u00a0Bexar County on July 15. The\u00a0first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-393041","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\/393041","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=393041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}