{"id":375395,"date":"2026-07-16T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375395\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:13:10","slug":"live-updates-large-and-deadly-flood-wave-threatens-texas-hill-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375395\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: \u2018Large and deadly flood wave\u2019 threatens Texas Hill Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gettyimages-2286269669-20260716110801097.jpg\" alt=\"A section of a street in Sabinal, Texas, is closed due to rising flood waters across Uvalde County on Wednesday.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnctdo400023b6r4dgyi3uc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A flash flood emergency \u2014 the highest level of flood warning \u2014 has been issued for over 22,000 people in southeastern Uvalde County, Texas, until 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET). Uvalde, Sabinal, Knippa and Uvalde Estates are among the towns included in the warning.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnctdo400033b6rnwyu53j5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!\u201d the National Weather Service said.\n    <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flash Flood Emergency including Uvalde TX, Uvalde Estates TX and  Knippa TX until 10:00 AM CDT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Ov9I1j3lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5Ov9I1j3lo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @NWSFlashFlood (@NWSFlashFlood) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFlashFlood\/status\/2077681331845132656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnctdo400043b6r8vmtva0k@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Uvalde County has already been hard-hit by flooding this week with dozens of water rescues.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnctdo400053b6rgtz8cckf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            New storms this morning have dropped up to 8 inches of rain on the area, pushing storm totals since Monday night to between 10 to 20 inches. The upper end of those totals is more than half the yearly average rainfall for the area in just a few days.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnctdo400063b6r672la071@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The warning is the second flash flood emergency issued on Thursday morning. A separate one was issued for portions of Texas Hill County impacted by the deadly July 4 floods.\n    <\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flash flood emergency \u2014 the highest level of flood warning \u2014 has been issued for over 22,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-375395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375395","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=375395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}