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<\/p>\nAUSTIN, Texas – The river flood risk is rising in the Hill Country as there has been too much heavy rain for the saturated ground to handle.<\/p>\n
By the numbers:<\/p>\n
Some areas have received six to 15 inches in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The Guadalupe River, according to the National Weather Service, rose about 22 feet in less than an hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The river gauge at Center Point, which sits between Kerrville and Comfort, has risen 32 feet in four hours and is expected to reach a crest similar to the July 4, 2025 deadly and catastrophic river flood.<\/p>\n
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Big picture view:<\/p>\n
The water is now running off into creeks, streams and rivers.<\/p>\n
A Flash Flood Emergency has been issued for the Pedernales River and the Guadalupe River. Both are reaching major flood stage; anyone living near those river basins is urged to seek higher ground now.<\/p>\n
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The Llano River will have a slower rise in Mason and Llano counties and will only reach moderate flood stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The dangerous and life-threatening flood risk will stay in the Hill Country for most of the day as the conveyor belt of rain continues west of Austin.<\/p>\n
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What you can do:<\/p>\n
Track your local forecast for the Austin area quickly with the free FOX 7 WAPP<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The design gives you radar, hourly, and 7-day weather information just by scrolling.\u00a0<\/p>\n Our weather alerts will warn you early and help you stay safe.<\/p>\n You can also keep an eye on low water crossings and road closures at atxfloods<\/a> and DriveTexas.org.<\/a><\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from Zack Shields and the National Weather Service<\/p>\n Weather Forecast<\/a>Weather<\/a>Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – The river flood risk is rising in the Hill Country as there has been too…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,4375,216,393,172,443],"class_list":["post-375622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-weather","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375622","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=375622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}