Kerrville, Texas: Life Threatening Flash Flood Warning Covers Hill Country Counties Along the Guadalupe

A life threatening flash flood warning covered Hill Country counties along the Guadalupe River on Sunday afternoon. The National Weather Service in Austin and San Antonio issued the warning at 1:23 p.m. CST on Sunday, November 8, 2026, and it stays in effect until 8:00 p.m. CST Sunday.

The warning covers western Bandera County, Edwards County, northwestern Kerr County, northern Kinney County and northeastern Val Verde County. Its location list also reaches places in Real and Uvalde counties, including Leakey, Concan and Utopia. Weather.com listed the same alert for Bandera as severe, with the same 1:23 p.m. start and the same 8:00 p.m. end.

Rain already down, more on the way

At 1:23 p.m., Doppler radar showed thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 3 and 5 inches of rain had already fallen. The warning said up to 2 more inches were possible, and that flash flooding was ongoing or expected to begin shortly.

The warning calls the hazard life threatening flash flooding from thunderstorms. It says creeks and streams face life threatening flooding, along highways where low water crossings exist. In hilly terrain, it notes, there are hundreds of low water crossings that are potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Drivers are told not to attempt to cross flooded roads and to find an alternate route.

Crossings near Barksdale already flooded

The flooding was not only a forecast. At 1:21 p.m., two minutes before the warning was issued, Edwards County Emergency Management reported that several low water crossings near Barksdale were flooded, and some of them were impassable.

The places the warning says will see flash flooding include Medina, Rocksprings, Leakey, Loma Alta, Vanderpool, Camp Wood, Vance, Barksdale, Montell, Tuff, Reagan Wells, Rio Frio, Garner State Park, Carta Valley, Lost Maples State Natural Area, Concan, the Kerr Wildlife Management Area, Utopia, Devil's Sinkhole State Natural Area and Kickapoo Cavern State Park. The local report of the warning names the South Fork and the North Fork of the Guadalupe River.

A wider South Texas flood threat

The Hill Country warning sits inside a broader flood threat across South Texas on Sunday. A flood watch stayed in effect Sunday, with Corpus Christi, Laredo, San Antonio, Brownsville and Kerrville among the cities under a flood watch through Monday morning. Widespread rainfall of 2 to 5 inches was likely, with isolated totals of 7 to 9 inches possible. A level 2 of 4 threat for flash flooding was in effect across southern Texas on Sunday, including Kerrville, with rain rates at times reaching 1 to 2 inches per hour. On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to step up its emergency response to the flooding threat.

This warning is separate from the flash flood warning covered here on Sunday morning for Duval and Webb counties, which came from the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi and ran from 5:04 a.m. to 8 a.m. This one comes from the Austin and San Antonio office, covers different counties, and runs through Sunday evening. The warning itself ends at 8:00 p.m. Sunday. The flood watch for the region runs through Monday morning.