Major flash flooding is ongoing in the city of\u00a0Boerne and across parts of southern Kendall County. That has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood emergency for the region. The warning will stay in place through at least 8:15 p.m. Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
A flash flood emergency is an enhanced type of flash flood warning issued when a historic or catastrophic flooding event is occurring or is imminent. These situations pose an extreme threat to human life and can lead to catastrophic damage.<\/p>\n
Between 4 and 12 inches of rain have fallen in the area, and additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 4 inches will be possible in the warned area.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlash flooding is already occurring,\u201d the National Weather Service said in a statement. \u201cHigh water rescues are in progress and some people are stranded.\u201d<\/p>\n
The weather service continues \u201cThis is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!\u201d<\/p>\n
Life threatening flash flooding is expected across low water crossings, small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.<\/p>\n
As of noon\u00a0Wednesday, Cibolo Creek near Boerne has risen to a stage height of 21.56 feet. This exceeds the record crest of 19.83 ft that was recorded in May 2015.<\/p>\n
D’Hanis flooding on Seco Creek: The weather service also issued a flash flood emergency for D’Hanis in west-central Medina County until 8:30 p.m.\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Around 12:45 p.m. emergency management reported flash flooding in D’Hanis, where 4 to 10 inches of rainfall has occurred, the weather service said. Another inch of rainfall is possible in the warning area and\u00a0Seco Creek is rising rapidly.<\/p>\n
“Those in flood-prone areas along the creek are asked to move to higher ground immediately.” forecasters said in issuing the flood warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major flash flooding is ongoing in the city of\u00a0Boerne and across parts of southern Kendall County. That has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-374573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374573","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=374573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}