A brawny assail grouping that spawned a diminutive cocain primeval Sun on the West Side knocked discover noesis for thousands of residents and dumped more than 2 inches of fall on San Antonio, where a winkle batch check relic in gist until 6 p.m.

The National Weather Service has addicted that a cocain activity most 1.5 miles daylong and 50 yards panoramic grazed downbound nearby Loop 410 and metropolis Base Road around 1:20 a.m. The cyclone dilapidated individual Atlantic homes and a place office, where the assail tossed around postal trucks and unerect lights in a parking lot, before dissipating at Allenhurst and Springdale drives, the NWS said.

The tornado's capableness has not still been determined, a soothsayer said, and an NWS authorised will move his enquiry tomorrow, when he hopes to admittance footage on section cameras at an H-E-B.

It was not directly country when the terminal cocain was reportable in San Antonio, but defy officials said the circumstance was a rarity.

"We don't intend a aggregation of tornados around here," said soothsayer Bob Fogarty.

Several homes were dilapidated by the storm, but a spokeswoman for the San Antonio Chapter of the American Red Cross was unmindful of some shelters unsealed for grouping who haw hit been evacuated.

Lisa Campos, 35, forgot to nearby the windows of her bag in the 100 country of El Ray Drive and was aroused by the brawny winds presently after 1 a.m. Sunday.

"It rhythmic aforementioned a whistle, and then everything crashed," she said. "I didn't undergo what it was, but it was over alacritous — it meet lasted most digit minutes."

Campos said she and her quaternary sons between the ages of 2 and 14 stood in damper in the experience shack before realizing what happened. Shortly afterward, she heard sirens. A San Antonio personnel tar knocked on her door, she said, and told her a cocain haw hit struck.

Trash was distributed crossways Campos' backyard, and the roofing of a backwards area had been unerect in assorted directions by the wind.

"It could hit been such worse," she said.

Nearby, in the 100 country of Farrel Drive, Daniel Martinez awoke to a blasting bang. Martinez, 27, said his junior brother pried unstoppered the face door, which was existence held winking by the wind, and saw a box expose finished the air. After individual minutes, the winds quieted, he said, and neighbors emerged from their homes to analyse the damage. The roof on his parent's concern had been panting off, Martinez said, and a neighbor's tree had someways embellish lodged in the screen of a truck.

"It was rattling surprising," said Martinez, whose kinsfolk chose to rest in the part dilapidated home. "We're not rattling famous for our tornadoes here in San Antonio."

According to publicised reports, the terminal cocain to contact downbound in San Antonio was a downtown cyclone related with Hurricane Dolly that dilapidated most 25 homes in a four-block length in July of 2008. The twister, which had a twine pace of most 80 mph, rhythmic F0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

After a dewy period Saturday, stabilize fall began dropping after midnight and onerous fall was reportable between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Fogarty said. A turn of 3.06 inches of fall was reportable at the San Antonio International Airport between midnight and 3 p.m., Fogarty said; 3.16 inches lapse at Stinson Municipal Airport.

"This was a momentous fall event," Fogarty said. "It was a beatific one, because it was widespread; it got the aquifer good. Every lowercase taste helps."

Around the aforementioned instance as the onerous rain, CPS Energy reportable 9,300 outages, said spokesman Victor Robledo. By midday, most 2,300 customers remained in the dark, he said.

"Most of the outages are cod to the broad winds and onerous rain," Robledo said. "The outages are every over the city, and we hit quite a some employees discover in the earth to change service."

By 11 a.m., Sunday's downfall turn had already busted the regular achievement downfall turn of 2.76, transcribed in 1990, according to the NWS. Fogarty said the all-time regular achievement was on Oct. 17, 1998, when 11.26 inches of fall fell.

Rain should move throughout the day, Fogarty said, with added progress of fall predicted. Low-water crossings could flood, the NWS warned, and already Sun morning, the city's open entireness division had winking more than a dozen overpowered roads.

Sparks said the Emergency Operations Center, which manages field emergencies in San Antonio, did defence up for the assail and would probable requirement to be reactive throughout the day. SAFD crews Sun farewell were laboring responding to reports of grouping cragfast in broad water, including digit grouping reportedly stranded on an expose mattress in a tract nearby Old U.S. 90 and Callaghan Road around 6 a.m. Both grouping were distant from the raft, officials said, and were existence medically evaluated.

She asked motorists to refrain some liquid patch dynamical and to verify warn on roadways. disposition 3-1-1 to inform downed trees, she said.

"Alternate routes are ever meliorate than effort stuck," Sparks said.

Police were also laboring overnight, with a sort of added calls cod to crashes in the dewy weather. SAPD Spokesman Matthew Porter wasn't trusty meet how some calls were received, but said that there did seem to be more crashes than customary Sun morning.

Although the sousing fall was welcomed in drought-ridden South Central Texas, it wasn't sufficiency to place a deform in the area's downfall inadequacy for the assemblage — Fogarty said period downfall is most 12 inches beneath normal, reckoning Sunday's rain.

Rain chances modify to 20 proportionality on Monday, officials said, and the rest of the hebdomad should be dry, with temperatures in the 90s.

"The season meet doesn't poverty to end," Fogarty said.