A flash flood warning has been issued Monday for elements of the San Antonio metro space, the National Weather Service stated. The warning will keep energetic till at the least 5 p.m.
Northern and japanese elements of the San Antonio metro space are included underneath the flash flood warning. This additionally consists of Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Hollywood Park, Castle Hills, Windcrest, Kirby, Live Oak, Universal City, and Schertz.
The warning additionally extends up the Interstate 35 corridor into Comal County, together with the town of New Braunfels.
According to the National Weather Service, at the least an inch to three inches of rainfall have already fallen within the warned space, and one other inch to 2 inches is feasible over the following few hours. In this area, flooding is feasible throughout creeks, streams, city areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
Travel shouldn’t be really useful within the warning space. If you need to journey, achieve this very rigorously, take it sluggish, and don’t drive over flooded roadways.
High water has already been reported on each eastbound and westbound lanes of Loop 1604 at Hardy Oak Boulevard as of 1:30 p.m., in line with the Texas Department of Transportation. South of Hollywood Park, the 200 block of Yosemite Drive has been closed attributable to flooding.
According to afternoon radar imaging, a cluster of showers and thunderstorms has developed within the warning space, which is simply to the north and east of downtown San Antonio. Weather fashions counsel this exercise will hover in the identical areas into the night.
Areas to the south, from downtown San Antonio and into southern and western Bexar County, will expertise a lot decrease rainfall quantities. There, further rainfall will doubtless whole lower than a half-inch.
Thankfully, extreme thunderstorms – together with the menace of massive hail and damaging wind gusts – aren’t anticipated with this exercise.
