{"id":18657,"date":"2025-10-24T03:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18657\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:13:07","slug":"central-texas-events-canceled-rescheduled-due-to-threat-of-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18657\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texas events canceled, rescheduled due to threat of severe weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Central Texas is expected to see heavy rainfall and potentially strong storms arriving Friday evening and Friday night. The threat of inclement weather has led to event cancellations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/wetter-colder-weather-coming-202000359.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:KXAN First Warning Weather forecast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> KXAN First Warning Weather forecast <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KXAN\u2019s First Warning Weather Team have said a large cluster of storms and downpours could move in from roughly west to east Friday night continuing into early Saturday morning, bringing a localized flash flood risk and the potential for a few severe storms with the primary threat being damaging wind gusts.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Oct. 24<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Trunk-or-Treat event hosted at McKinney Falls State Park was canceled. According to Texas State Parks, the event, which was originally scheduled for Friday evening, will not take place due to rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Battle of the Lakes high school football game between Lake Travis and Westlake will start at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30 p.m. Westlake will retire the jersey of NFL Quarterback and Chaps graduate Drew Brees at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/watch-kxan-on-roku-apple-tv-amazon-fire-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:watch the game on KXAN+.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">watch the game on KXAN+.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The time for the Burnet High School football game was changed to 6 p.m. due to the \u201cpotential for severe weather,\u201d the school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0AdiXy23qgbCDeVmU2C2y26bafJkLkUxDFTE4gL7m7bDHmzacEjirw3XUCktwWgTwl&amp;id=100060215268258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said on social media<\/a>. Additionally, the senior\/parent recognition will begin at 5:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWeather permitting, all seniors will walk the field at the conclusion of the game when the senior song is revealed,\u201d the school said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02u6jQKoKwcMV9M4CnMpWiPRCbNfHgYQS5FUu3mvZq7sHnn9kdCWLvgb7m5afdkNCNl&amp;id=100060215268258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the school said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the school said<\/a> due to an earlier game, the pep rally happening on Friday will now happen at 8:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Send event information to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:ReportIt@kxan.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:ReportIt@kxan.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ReportIt@kxan.com<\/a>. This story will be updated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Central Texas is expected to see heavy rainfall and potentially strong storms arriving Friday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14379,14377,14380,14378,8044,9208,4375,27,29,28,9009],"class_list":{"0":"post-18657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-drew-brees","9":"tag-first-warning-weather-team","10":"tag-heavy-rainfall","11":"tag-inclement-weather","12":"tag-kxan","13":"tag-severe-storms","14":"tag-severe-weather","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-headlines","17":"tag-texas-news","18":"tag-texas-state-parks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}