{"id":246560,"date":"2026-04-12T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246560\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:28:08","slug":"flood-watch-issued-for-austin-area-counties-travis-williamson-hays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246560\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood watch issued for Austin area counties: Travis, Williamson, Hays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/weather\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather <\/a>Service has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/weather\/article\/austin-flash-flood-turn-around-dont-drown-origins-22199605.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flood <\/a>watch for several counties in the Austin area, including Travis, Williamson, Hays and Bastrop counties.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS said there is \u201cpotential for life-threatening flooding\u201d in the area, with the highest potential for flooding Sunday afternoon and evening. The service expects 2 to 4 inches of rain in the area, with some areas seeing between 5 and 10 inches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsolated strong to severe storms with heavy downpours are possible this afternoon and evening across South-Central Texas,\u201d NWS meteorologists <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/product.php?site=EWX&amp;issuedby=EWX&amp;product=AFD&amp;format=CI&amp;version=1&amp;glossary=1\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in an update Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The watch is in effect through 7 a.m. Monday. Rain and storm chances will continue through the middle of the week, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for several counties in the Austin area, including Travis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,93799],"class_list":{"0":"post-246560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-time-sensitive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246560","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=246560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}