A flood watch is in effect for parts of Central and South Texas starting at 7 p.m. Friday and ending at 7 p.m. Monday, covering counties across the Austin metro, San Antonio metro, and the Hill Country, with residents urged to monitor storm forecasts and be re
For several Texas communities, the weekend starts under a cloud of uncertainty: a flood watch has been issued, with the risk window beginning at 7 p.m. Friday and stretching until 7 p.m. Monday.
The watch covers Austin metro area counties including Travis, Hays, Williamson, Bastrop and Caldwell. It also includes San Antonio metro area counties: Bexar, Bandera, Medina, Comal, Guadalupe, Frio, Kendall and Wilson. In the Hill Country, the flood watch extends to Burnet, Blanco, Llano, Kerr and Gillespie.
Residents in a long list of communities are included under the watch: Austin. Hondo. Bandera. Boerne. New Braunfels. Pearsall. Fredericksburg. Floresville. Llano. Georgetown. Kerrville. Pleasanton. San Antonio. Blanco. Seguin. Gonzales. Bastrop. Karnes City. Giddings. San Marcos. La Grange. Cuero. Burnet. Lockhart and Hallettsville.
The weather service’s message is direct: people in the flood watch area should monitor storm forecasts and stay alert for possible flood warnings. Flood watches are issued when conditions that can lead to flooding are expected soon. and the public should be prepared to take action. A flood warning, by contrast, signals flooding that is imminent or already occurring.
With the start time set for Friday evening and the watch running through Monday night, the immediate question for families and commuters will be the same as the sky changes: whether the conditions that make flooding possible evolve into conditions that make flooding unavoidable.
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Flood watch??? So does that mean the river is definitely gonna come into my yard or what
They always say flood watch like it’s nothing and then everything’s underwater by Sunday. I don’t get it. Like just shut off the roads or something if it’s gonna be bad.
Wait, it ends Monday at 7pm but “Memorial Day” is Monday right? So is Memorial Day safe or not 😅 also Austin always says monitor forecasts and then the alerts come way too late
Flood watch covers like half the state in that list. Austin, San Antonio, Hill Country… next they’re gonna tell me my mailbox might float away. I heard on TikTok it’s just thunderstorms, not really flooding, but they said “possible flood warnings” so now I’m confused and gonna fill up water anyway.