{"id":343381,"date":"2026-06-19T21:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343381\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:43:20","slug":"austin-under-extreme-heat-warning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343381\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin under extreme heat warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS \u2014\u00a0Most of Central Texas was hit with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/ewx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extreme heat warning<\/a> on Thursday accompanied by a lot of humidity. Austinites took to the water to cool off.<\/p>\n<p>Beating the heat, the Austin way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m just going to enjoy some time at Barton Springs,\u201d said Kevin Murphy, an Austin native.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we&#8217;re not doing work or school usually here it&#8217;s a good spot,\u201d said Charlotte Olenick, who currently lives in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Olenick, Murphy and dozens of Austinites went to Barton Springs on Thursday during the season\u2019s first extreme heat warning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really early from my experience,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time Travis County has been under an extreme heat warning for high heat index values since Aug. 22, 2024. Those high temperatures with moisture in the air impacting most of Central Texas, including Austin and San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeat indexes are going to be extreme today,\u201d said David Wiechmann with Austin Emergency Management. \u201cWe&#8217;re going to be way up there with all the rains that we&#8217;ve had recently making the humidity be a little bit higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wiechmann says when temperatures first hit the triple digits, there\u2019s an uptick in hospital visits and calls to emergency services. Health officials tracking heat-related calls tell Spectrum News in one week from June 8-15, they received 21 calls to EMS. In the five-week span before that, they averaged 10 calls a week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you&#8217;re working or playing outdoors, take shade breaks, drink water regularly so you can keep yourself hydrated and rest every now and then,\u201d Wiechmann said. \u201cYou don&#8217;t want to get any heat cramps or heat exhaustion, which those can progress and lead to heat stroke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who are native to Texas or who have been here for a while were prepared for the heat at Barton Springs on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got ice water,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have two water bottles in my bag,\u201d Olenick said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone visiting the state is advised to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014\u00a0Most of Central Texas was hit with an extreme heat warning on Thursday accompanied by a lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1570,102,138,6364,223,82,57088,1569,835],"class_list":["post-343381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-geraldine-torrellas","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-severe-weather-2026","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343381","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=343381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}