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Tornado plows down trees near New Berlin
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It’s official: An EF-1 tornado plowed through the New Berlin area last week. As a line of thunderstorms made its way eastward from Bexar County into western Guadalupe County, the twister was on the ground for about 5 minutes, according to the National Weather Service, which surveyed the damage May 27 after the weather cleared. According to the survey team, the “damage was consistent with a short-lived EF-1 tornado.” The tornado’s path was approximately 2.9 miles long and 70 yards wide, with peak winds of 105 mph. It was on the ground from about 10:20 p.m. to 10:25 p.m. It...