{"id":375506,"date":"2026-07-16T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375506\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:19:12","slug":"flash-flood-emergencies-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375506\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash flood emergencies in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KERR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 The National Weather Service (NWS) declared a flash flood emergency in multiple Texas counties early Thursday morning \u2014 Uvalde, Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall and Kerr counties \u2014 as heavy rain batters the region. The emergency is expected to last until Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The flash flood emergency in Kerr County is due to flooding on the Guadalupe River and is expected to be in place until Thursday afternoon. This comes just over a year after the devastating floods on July 4, 2025, killed over 100 people in the county.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS said multiple water rescues were reported in Hunt, Texas \u2014 one of the hardest-hit towns along the Guadalupe River last year. Water rescues were also reported in Ingram, with multiple streets flooded.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the Guadalupe River at Comfort in Kendall County was observed at 36.97 feet at 7:50 a.m. \u2014 well over the 28 feet of a major flood stage. That is on par with what was seen at that river gauge last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kerrvillefiredepartment\/posts\/pfbid0eDo3nJ9zPXtVRyDe4hhkgxk6zNgxf59vm73BdAtfUcT8ZaudBCUPjcAAs8K47p65l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerr County officials<\/a> have urged residents to shelter in place and move to the highest level of their homes. Kerr County\u2019s new flood warning sirens \u2014 installed in response to last year\u2019s floods \u2014 have been heard.<\/p>\n<p>In Uvalde County, the emergency was declared after 10 to 20 inches of rain fell over the past 48 to 60 hours, with up to 8 inches of rainfall in just two hours Thursday morning, causing flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple roadways are flooded, and the NWS said multiple water rescues have been reported between Uvalde and Knippa, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple tornado warnings were also issued Thursday morning across South-Central Texas, including in Uvalde County.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 The National Weather Service (NWS) declared a flash flood emergency in multiple Texas counties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2160,132,134,133,1974,223,82,57088,27,1659,2053],"class_list":["post-375506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-top-stories","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-katharine-finnerty","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-severe-weather-2026","tag-texas","tag-texas-floods","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375506","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=375506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}