EF0 tornado in Kendall County, Texas

Tornado October 24, 2025 · Kendall County, Texas

EF0

Rating

20.0 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Kendall County → Blanco County → Comal County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado touched down in Kendall County approximately four miles southwest of Kendalia traveled 9.8 miles to the east crossed into Blanco County approximately a quarter of a mile west-northwest of the intersection of Hwy 281 and FM 306 continued east a quarter of a mile to the Comal County line a tenth of mile northwest of the Hwy 281/FM 306 intersection and continued another 10.2 miles east before dissipating after crossing FM 306 near Hancock Rd. As the tornado moved through rural Kendall County it produced sporadic tree damage estimated at EF-0 (65-80 mph). In Comal County it produced EF-1 damage. The path width was 300 yards.

The wider storm

An upper-level shortwave trough and Pacific cold front moved into an unusually moist airmass over South-Central Texas. These features combined to generate thunderstorms some of which produced a tornado, damaging wind gusts, and large hail.

Began near Kendalia (29.9329, -98.5778).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1297320. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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