{"id":377761,"date":"2026-07-18T07:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377761\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:25:24","slug":"flooding-causes-bridge-collapse-in-uvalde-county-texas-amid-torrential-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377761\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding causes bridge collapse in Uvalde County, Texas amid torrential floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-text\">Texas continues to battle an ongoing flood threat with multiple Flash Flood Emergencies being issued in Sutton and Crockett counties. FOX Weather Meteorologists Stephen Morgan and Melanie Black have the latest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">UVALDE, Texas \u2014 A destructive weather system is delivering its final blows to the <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_extreme-weather_article_main-content_article-body_2_2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas<\/a> Hill Country Friday morning after unleashing catastrophic <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_extreme-weather_article_main-content_article-body_2_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/flood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">flooding<\/a> across the region this week that killed at least two people and left a widespread path of destruction.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The Farm-to-Market (FM) 481 bridge in <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_extreme-weather_article_main-content_article-body_2_4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/texas\/uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Uvalde County<\/a>, just south of Uvalde, collapsed Friday morning due to flooding. Aerial images from the Texas Department of Public Safety showed that a segment of the bridge was completely gone, while the swollen Nueces River nearly submerged the remaining span.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_extreme-weather_article_main-content_article-body_2_5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/catastrophic-flooding-paralyzes-texas-hill-country-killing-two-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCIES ISSUED AS RELENTLESS DEADLY FLOODS CONTINUE TO SLAM TEXAS HILL COUNTRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">There&#8217;s no word if anyone was injured. Officials reminded people to stay off flooded roads and heed road closures and barricades.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Widespread road closures remain across south-central Texas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_extreme-weather_article_main-content_article-body_2_6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/learn\/what-flood-watch-flood-warning-flood-emergency-really-mean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WHAT FLOOD WATCHES, WARNINGS AND EMERGENCIES MEAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Farther north, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a Flash Flood Emergency Friday morning for the <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_extreme-weather_article_main-content_article-body_2_7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/texas\/ozona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ozona<\/a> area in Crockett County. The local fire department said water rescues were underway and asked people in flooded areas to wait for first responders instead of trying to leave.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/crockett-county-fire-ems.jpg\" alt=\"Crockett County, Texas, flooding on Friday morning, July 17, 2026.\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Crockett County, Texas, flooding on Friday morning, July 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"> (Crockett County Fire &amp; EMS\/Facebook \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Another Flash Flood Emergency was issued earlier Friday morning for the area in and around <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_extreme-weather_article_main-content_article-body_2_8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/texas\/sonora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sonora<\/a>, Texas, just as the sun came up. Officials urged people in low-lying areas to seek higher ground immediately. The Flash Flood Emergency also covered parts of Interstate 10.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">On Thursday, the National Weather Service warned of several deadly flood waves surging down the Guadalupe and Pedernales rivers as flooding spread to the Nueces and Frio river basins through Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Check back for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas continues to battle an ongoing flood threat with multiple Flash Flood Emergencies being issued in Sutton and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[491,12257,88297,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-377761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-disasters","tag-flood","tag-precipitation","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377761","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=377761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}