{"id":337079,"date":"2026-06-15T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:01:08","slug":"thousands-without-power-across-south-texas-amid-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337079\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands without power across South Texas amid heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of customers across deep South Texas were without power Monday as\u00a0tropical moisture moved into the region<\/a> on Monday, June 15, bringing the threat of days of heavy rain and possible flooding to the Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n

The largest concentration of outages was in Hidalgo County, where 2,789 AEP Texas customers were without electricity across more than two dozen outages, according to the utility\u2019s outage map. Another 185 Magic Valley Electric Cooperative customers in the county were also in the dark in Hidalgo County.<\/p>\n

The number of outages in other nearby counties is starting to trend upward across the region, including in Cameron County, where some 74 customers are without electricity and 40 in Webb County, whose largest city is Laredo.<\/p>\n

Further up the coast, more than 270 AEP customers are without power across Nueces, San Patricio and Aransas counties in the Coastal Bend.<\/p>\n

The highest number of outages in that region of Texas are currently in\u00a0Nueces County, with the bulk of those inside the Corpus Christi city limits, the AEP Texas map shows. Moving inland, another 111 customers in Bee and Goliad counties are also without power.<\/p>\n

A wave of tropical moisture is currently moving across Texas after having traveled northward from the Bay of\u00a0Campeche over the weekend. The weather system is the remnants of Tropical Storm Cristina, which traversed across Central America before re-emerging on Mexico\u2019s eastern coast last Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service in Brownsville said much of the Rio Grande Valley could see 4 to 6 inches of rain<\/a> through Wednesday, with isolated areas receiving as much as 8 inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of customers across deep South Texas were without power Monday as\u00a0tropical moisture moved into the region on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[820,55116,3091,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-337079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysaweather","tag-mysawx","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337079","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=337079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}