Tornadoes · United States · Texas · 2026

EF0 tornado, Bexar County, Texas, July 15, 2026

This EF0 tornado ran 0.3 miles across Bexar County on July 15, 2026, touching down at 5:20 AM CDT. It killed nobody.

Preliminary. This is NWS EWX's damage survey, filed in the Damage Assessment Toolkit as SA. The rating, the path and the casualties are the survey's and can change while it is revised. The Storm Prediction Center compiles the official record of 2026 from these surveys and publishes it in the spring of 2027; this page moves to that tornado's permanent address when it does.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. EF186 to 110 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. EF2111 to 135 mph

    Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

  4. EF3136 to 165 mph

    Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

  5. EF4166 to 200 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. EF5over 200 mph

    Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

  7. Unrated

    The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The survey

Rating, as surveyed
EF0, preliminary
Date
July 15, 2026
Touchdown
5:20 AM CDT (10:20 UTC)
Lifted
5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
On the ground
1 minutes
Path length
0.3 miles (0.5 km)
Path width
0 yards (0 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
County
Bexar County
Touchdown point
29.433, -98.471
Lift-off point
29.435, -98.475
Highest wind the damage implies
65 mph
Surveyed by
NWS EWX
The office's name for it
SA
Survey last edited
July 28, 2026
Record number
None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

The damage survey

19 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS EWX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 110 mph.

  • Several small oak trees uprooted.
  • Damage to facade and windows.
  • Shingle damage. Signs and light posts damaged.
  • Loss of roof covering. Signs blow out. Small trees uprooted. Near center point.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

Issued (UTC)ExpiredProductOffice
23:20 UTC03:43 UTCFlash Flood WarningEWX
23:55 UTC00:15 UTCTornado WarningEWX
03:43 UTC06:00 UTCFlood AdvisoryEWX
11:42 UTC12:41 UTCFlood AdvisoryEWX
12:40 UTC23:47 UTCFlash Flood WarningEWX
12:49 UTC13:18 UTCTornado WarningEWX
14:00 UTC23:48 UTCFlash Flood WarningEWX
14:55 UTC19:46 UTCFlash Flood WarningEWX
19:46 UTC03:00 UTCFlood AdvisoryEWX
21:04 UTC21:45 UTCTornado WarningEWX
22:35 UTC23:15 UTCTornado WarningEWX
23:12 UTC23:22 UTCTornado WarningEWX
23:47 UTC03:00 UTCFlood AdvisoryEWX
23:48 UTC03:00 UTCFlood AdvisoryEWX
02:56 UTC07:45 UTCFlood AdvisoryEWX
03:04 UTC03:30 UTCTornado WarningEWX
04:17 UTC14:13 UTCFlood WarningEWX

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:52 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), 00:00Z

10.3 hours before the tornado, 219 km from the path. July 15, 2026.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2026-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 463 joules per kilogram, CIN -51, lifted condensation level 1262 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2026-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 29 knots.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
463 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Surface CAPE
2415 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1262 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4
0-3 km lapse rate
6.7 K/km

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The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 10:16 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)ReportWhereCountyRemark
10:20 UTCTORNADO2 Ene San AntonioBexar, TXEF0 tornado with maximum winds of 65 mph. Tin roof corner partially peeled up. Additionally, fencing and brick facade had collapsed. Security camera footage captured very brief, small tornado.
12:50 UTCTORNADO3 W Shavano ParkBexar, TXVideo showed tornado crossing 1604. Power flashes and debris on video. Time estimated by radar.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of July 15, 2026

2 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 157:44 AM CDTEF1Bexar, TX4.0200
July 154:25 PM CDTEF0Bexar, TX0.130

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

Sources

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.