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SAN ANTONIO — More rounds of life-threatening flash flooding are expected for more than 2.5 million people in Texas’ Hill Country and Big Bend regions through Friday, after torrential rain and flooding prompted Gov. Greg Abbott to declare a state of emergency across 59 counties on Tuesday.NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has issued a Level 4 out of 4 flash flood risk for the southern part of Texas Hill Country, with a broader Level 3 threat including the rest of the Hill Country and the San Antonio metro area through Thursday morning.
Kerrville and other vulnerable communities along the Guadalupe River that saw devastating flooding last July 4 that killed 135 people are also included in the Level 3 risk area.
Heavy rain is expected to quickly redevelop Wednesday morning after nearly a foot of rain fell in Uvalde since Tuesday morning.An image taken north of Uvalde on Tuesday showed floodwaters nearly reaching the 5-foot mark on a roadside flood marker.
Uvalde police said they conducted 24 water rescues Tuesday.
FOX Weather Senior Correspondent Robert Ray reported widespread washouts and roads that had been rendered impassable near D’hanis, Texas, where roughly 10 inches of rain has fallen.
Widespread road closures are in effect across Kerrville and Hondo.
“Medina County Sheriff’s deputies have been verifying roads inundated with water,” the Medina County Office of Emergency Management told FOX Weather Tuesday morning.
“Multiple roads are reported with water over the roadways within the heavy rainfall areas.”
Gov. Abbott said the Blackhawk helicopters and other rescue teams were deployed Tuesday.
The National Guard and other state resources were activated ahead of the storms.The FOX Forecast Center said this region could see an additional 2-3 inches of rain through Friday, with pockets of 3-5 inches of rain possible.
Flood Watches for life-threatening floods remain in place across central and southwestern Texas, including Austin, Kerrville and Del Rio through Thursday.
A Broader Level 1 flash flood threat covers Central Texas, North Texas and other parts of the South, including Arkansas, northern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Flood Watches for life-threatening floods remain in place across central and southwestern Texas, including Austin, Kerrville and Del Rio through Thursday.
“Without a driving force to keep storms moving, downpours are expected to park themselves over the same areas day after day,” the FOX Forecast Center said.
This week’s flood threat also comes on the heels of a deadly flash flooding along the Black River in southeastern Missouri that began on Friday and lasted into the weekend.