{"id":373405,"date":"2026-07-15T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373405\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:38:07","slug":"double-digit-rainfall-inundates-south-central-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373405\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Digit Rainfall Inundates South Central Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Torrential rainfall;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\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/2076997913948131625\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Torrential rainfall<\/a> slammed south central Texas early on Tuesday, July 14, with hourly rates of two to four inches per hour bringing severe flash flooding to the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) <a data-ylk=\"slk:reported;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\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/2077016381581652220\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> up to 12 inches of rainfall across portions of Medina, Uvalde, and Bandera counties, causing flooded roads and prompting &#8220;several high water rescues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage here captured by Kris Weltens shows severe flash flooding in <a data-ylk=\"slk:Bandera County;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\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/2077017601620783162\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bandera County<\/a> at about 4:30 am, with a powerful downpour inundating his yard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weltens <a data-ylk=\"slk:estimated;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\/vortexrfd\/status\/2077063427273408575\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">estimated<\/a> about eight inches of rainfall in the area. Credit: Kris Weltens via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torrential rainfall slammed south central Texas early on Tuesday, July 14, with hourly rates of two to four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9311,13365,110979,132102,132103,1971,7938,27,29,28,132101],"class_list":["post-373405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-bandera-county","tag-flash-flooding","tag-flooded-roads","tag-hourly-rates","tag-kris-weltens","tag-national-weather-service","tag-south-central-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-torrential-rainfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373405","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=373405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}