{"id":340093,"date":"2026-06-17T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340093\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:53:23","slug":"torrential-rain-floods-houston-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340093\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrential Rain Floods Houston Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Heavy rains flooded parts of Brazoria County near Houston on Wednesday, June 17, prompting officials to issue <a data-ylk=\"slk:flash flood warnings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/2067170983895613916\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood warnings<\/a> in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a data-ylk=\"slk:local news reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/brazoria-county-tropical-rains-flood-22309249.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">local news reports<\/a>, county and city officials reported between 5 and 7 inches of rainfall in the area as of 8:30 am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a data-ylk=\"slk:National Weather Service;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/2067278592233324829\/photo\/1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service<\/a> issued a flood watch to remain in effect in the area until Wednesday evening, with Tropical Storm Arthur expected to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to parts of southeast Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage captured by X user @\u200cStormChaserHTX shows flooding across Brazoria County, Texas, on Wednesday morning. Credit: @\u200cStormChaserHTX via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rains flooded parts of Brazoria County near Houston on Wednesday, June 17, prompting officials to issue flash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13358,13365,120626,56,58,57,1971,120706],"class_list":["post-340093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-brazoria-county","tag-flash-flooding","tag-flood-warnings","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-national-weather-service","tag-tropical-storm-arthur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340093","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=340093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}