{"id":375474,"date":"2026-07-16T13:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375474\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:31:18","slug":"texas-flooding-nws-issues-flash-flood-emergency-for-guadalupe-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375474\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas flooding: NWS issues Flash Flood Emergency for Guadalupe River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/weather\/article\/austin-texas-flood-threat-thursday-22346032.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood emergency was issued Thursday<\/a> morning for parts of the Hill Country as a rapidly rising Guadalupe River sent what the National Weather Service described as a &#8220;large and deadly flood wave&#8221; downstream.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NWS issued the emergency for portions of Kerr and Kendall counties, including Kerrville, Center Point and Comfort, after slow-moving thunderstorms dumped several inches of rain across the region overnight. People in the affected area should seek higher ground immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Flash Flood Emergency has been issued along the\u00a0Guadalupe River from Center Point downstream through Comfort to Bergheim,&#8221; meteorologists at the Austin and San Antonio National Weather Service wrote. &#8220;The river gauge at Center Point has risen 32 feet in 4 hours and is expected to reach a crest similar to July 4, 2025 catastrophic river flood. Flash flooding is already occurring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters had warned Wednesday night that flash flooding was already occurring and additional rainfall could worsen conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Residents should avoid travel, as flooding has inundated roads, low-water crossings and nearby structures. Water rescues and evacuations were reportedly underway in Kerr\u00a0County as the flood wave moved downstream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flash flood emergency was issued Thursday morning for parts of the Hill Country as a rapidly rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-375474","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\/375474","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=375474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}