{"id":324751,"date":"2026-06-05T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324751\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:51:11","slug":"heavy-rain-flash-flood-risk-expected-for-central-texas-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324751\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain, flash flood risk expected for Central Texas Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Central Texas is bracing for <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">heavy rainfall<\/a> Friday night, according to CBS Austin Meteorologist Avery Tomasco.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/ewx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flood watch is in effect<\/a> for eight Central Texas counties through 1 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service issued the watch for Burnet, Williamson, Travis, Hays, Caldwell, Bastrop, Lee and Fayette counties. Flash flooding of roads, creeks, streams and rivers is the primary concern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/lockhart-isd-launches-initiative-to-cut-screen-time-boost-recess-and-outdoor-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Lockhart ISD launches initiative to cut screen time, boost recess and outdoor play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomasco warned that atmospheric moisture levels are at the 90th percentile for this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This tropical moisture will lead to very efficient rainfall rates as high as 4 inches per hour,&#8221; Tomasco said Friday. &#8220;All it takes is a couple of hours of rain in one location to produce 6 inches or more of rain and rapidly developing flash flooding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The heaviest rain is expected between 6 p.m. and midnight Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Areas along the I-35 corridor (particularly Travis, Hays and Williamson counties) are forecast to see widespread totals of 1 to 3 inches, with isolated amounts of 6 to 9 inches possible.<\/p>\n<p>Early Friday afternoon, flood advisories were already issued for parts of Milam and Williamson counties after 2 to 3 inches of rain accumulated quickly. By 4 p.m., rainfall rates of 2 to 3 inches per hour were being estimated near Georgetown, Sun City and Liberty Hill in Williamson County.<\/p>\n<p>Tomasco noted key differences in the setup of this storm compared to the deadly flooding over the July 4th weekend in 2025. That event featured a near-stationary remnant low-pressure system that produced hours of heavy rain in isolated locations. Friday night&#8217;s system is a larger, moving Pacific low that is expected to bring drier air into the region by Saturday morning, bringing an end to the most significant flooding concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those floods were a lesson for everyone of how quickly a heavy rain threat can turn into a tragedy,&#8221; Tomasco said of the 2025 floods. &#8220;We live in flash flood alley. We all need to be extremely wary of situations like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rain chances drop considerably over the weekend. A 30% chance of showers or storms remains Saturday afternoon and evening, with a further reduced 20% chance of isolated storms Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Central Texas is bracing for heavy rainfall Friday night, according to CBS Austin Meteorologist Avery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-324751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324751","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=324751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}