{"id":375335,"date":"2026-07-16T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375335\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:07:09","slug":"live-slow-moving-storm-system-fuels-tornado-warnings-flood-emergency-west-of-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375335\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Slow-moving storm system fuels tornado warnings, flood emergency west of San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

WATCH IT LIVE<\/a><\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO – South Central Texas remains under a significant weather threat after a day and night filled with multiple tornado warnings and widespread flash flooding that continues to impact communities west and northwest of San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Our First Warning Weather team tracked at least four to five tornado warnings between Wednesday and early Thursday as a slow-moving storm system continued to produce rotating thunderstorms across the region.<\/p>\n

While the tornado threat has shifted west of San Antonio, forecasters warned the atmosphere remains capable of producing additional brief tornadoes, particularly in the Hill Country and Edwards Plateau.<\/p>\n

Early Thursday morning, tornado warnings were in effect for rural portions of Uvalde and Kinney counties, where radar continued to indicate rotating thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes.<\/p>\n

The greatest concern, however, remains the ongoing flood emergency.<\/p>\n

Numerous Flash Flood Warnings stretched from Kendall County west through Kerr, Uvalde, Kinney and Val Verde counties, with additional warnings extending into portions of Maverick and Zavala counties.<\/p>\n

Heavy rain continues to fall across Kerr County, Harper, Fredericksburg, Utopia, Concan, Brackettville and Del Rio, where repeated rounds of thunderstorms have been dumping torrential rainfall over already saturated ground.<\/p>\n

Forecasters said rivers, creeks and streams across the Hill Country continue rising, creating life-threatening flooding, especially near low-water crossings.<\/p>\n

Although San Antonio has largely avoided the worst flooding so far, roads remain wet and several low-water crossings remain closed following Wednesday’s heavy rain. A Flood Watch remains in effect for much of South Central Texas through Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Rainfall totals of another 3 to 6 inches remain possible across the western Hill Country and Edwards Plateau, with isolated areas capable of receiving even higher amounts where storms repeatedly move over the same locations.<\/p>\n

Storms are expected to gradually become less widespread Thursday afternoon, but additional rounds of heavy rain are forecast to redevelop overnight, once again focusing on counties west of San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Residents in flood-prone areas are urged to remain weather aware, avoid flooded roadways, and have multiple ways to receive weather warnings as dangerous flooding and isolated severe storms continue across South Central Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH IT LIVE SAN ANTONIO – South Central Texas remains under a significant weather threat after a day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-375335","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\/375335","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=375335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}