{"id":376578,"date":"2026-07-17T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376578\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:52:36","slug":"why-the-guadalupe-river-floods-so-quickly-in-texas-hill-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376578\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Guadalupe River floods so quickly in Texas Hill Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guadalupe River stretches across Central Texas and down to south-central Texas. The spring-fed river begins at its north and south forks in Kerr County, then flows east through Kendall and Comal counties before turning south toward the Gulf of Mexico, <a href=\"https:\/\/tpwd.texas.gov\/publications\/pwdpubs\/pwd_rp_t3200_1047\/17_c_tx_guadalupe.phtml#:~:text=of%20Central%20Texas-,Guadalupe%20River,to%20the%20Gulf%20of%20Mexico.\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports<\/a>. The length of the river is about 250 miles.<\/p>\n<p>A major river system and the fourth-largest river basin entirely within Texas, the Guadalupe River Basin flows from the Texas Hill Country to San Antonio Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Guadalupe River and its surrounding areas in the Texas Hill Country have historically been prone to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/weather\/article\/texas-flooding-heavy-rainfall-bull-s-eye-i-35-22346231.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flash flooding<\/a>, earning the nickname &#8220;Flash Flood Alley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flash Flood Alley is a curved region about 300 miles long and 50 miles wide in central and south-central Texas, extending from north of Dallas to southwest of San Antonio. Its location, weather patterns and geology often combine to create devastating floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guadalupe River stretches across Central Texas and down to south-central Texas. The spring-fed river begins at its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,3576,13890,172],"class_list":["post-376578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-flooding","tag-texas-flooding","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376578","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=376578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}