The heavy rainfall has prompted the National Weather Service to issue multiple flash flood warnings and flood advisories along the Interstate 35 corridor, while a flood watch remains in effect through Tuesday evening. A flood watch means the public should monitor weather updates for potential flooding in their area, while a warning is issued when flooding is occurring or imminent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Top rainfall totals of at least 4 inches include:<\/p>\n
In Austin, more than 3 inches of rain had fallen by 8 a.m., setting a new daily rainfall record. It surpassed the previous mark of 2.56 inches set in 1964.<\/p>\n
In San Antonio, more than 2.5 inches of rain have fallen, also setting a new daily rainfall record. It beat the old one of 1.68 inches set more than 130 years ago in 1894.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because of the heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours, the Highland Lakes managed by the Lower Colorado River Authority\u00a0are feeling the effects. The LCRA has opened a floodgate at the Tom Miller Dam, which forms Lake Austin, and will result in higher stream flows and raised lake levels in Lady Bird Lake.<\/p>\n
Deep volumes of tropical moisture combined with a stalled cold front will continue to fuel multiple rounds of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms across Central Texas through Monday.<\/p>\n
Widespread rain is expected to persist for the next several hours, although the corridor of heaviest rainfall is forecast to gradually shift farther south by this evening.<\/p>\n
Abundant moisture will remain in place overnight, and the latest high-resolution models continue to show pockets of heavy rainfall developing across the region through Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This setup can produce rainfall rates of 2 to 3 inches per hour, with some locations in South Texas potentially picking up more than 8 inches of rain by Tuesday evening, when the flood watch is set to expire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heavy rainfall has prompted the National Weather Service to issue multiple flash flood warnings and flood advisories…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-337206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337206","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=337206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}