The short-lived twister was about 70 yards wide as it touched down east of San Antonio, weather officials said.
SAN ANTONIO — For the first time in several months, a confirmed tornado touched down in the San Antonio region during Tuesday night’s severe storms.
The National Weather Service on Wednesday afternoon confirmed that an EF-1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 105 mph touched down in the area of New Berlin, in southern Guadalupe County, at 10:20 p.m. The service said it last five minutes and carved a path of about 2.92 miles, along which officials noted “widespread tree damage” through a rural area.
It was estimated to be about 70 yards wide.
No one was injured as a result of the tornado, the NWS said. But it was on the stronger end of an EF-1 classification; if it had reached peak winds of 111 mph, it would have been a more moderate EF-2.
It’s the first confirmed tornado in the region since Oct. 24, when another EF-1 that was 300 yards wide moved through a part of Spring Branch in Comal County. The last time any Texas community saw a more serious tornado was May 18, 2025, when an EF-1 injured four people and left behind $750,000 in property damage in Palo Pinto County, west of Fort Worth.
The NWS issued nearly half a dozen tornado warning during a busy Tuesday evening in South-Central Texas, including one impacted the area just east of downtown San Antonio. But at this point, the weather agency has confirmed just the EF-1 twister in New Berlin.