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Rain, Warnings, Watches and Travel!

Rain and clouds outside of the Austin Bergstrom International Airport Thursday morning.
Photo by Emily Donahue for KUT News.
Rain and clouds outside of the Austin Bergstrom International Airport Thursday morning.

Rain in Central Texas!

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warningfor Central Texas including Travis County, Williamson County, parts of Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell Countries until 11 a. m.

A severe thunderstorm watchis in effect until 3 p. m. for 10 counties including the cities of Austin, Georgetown, Bastrop and San Marcos, Lockhart, and  Burnet.

A flash flood warningis in effect for Central Texas including Travis and parts of Hays and Williamson Counties until 1:30 p.m.

An urban and small stream flood advisoryis in effect for Central Texas including Travis, Williamson and Hays Counties until noon.

Power Outages

Austin Energy says it's working to restore power to about 7,300 customers at 20 locations.  Here are more details from the utility: 

The three largest outages include one that occurred at 8:47 a.m. and affects about 2,774 customers in an area bounded roughly by Guadalupe, 51st, Lamar, Franklin, Avenue H, Airport, Caswell, Clarkson. A second outage occurred at about 9 a.m. and affects 983 customers in an area bounded by Stoneridge Rd., Pinnacle Rd., Walsh Tarlton, Wilderness Dr., Bee Caves. A third large outage occurred at 9:47 a.m. and affects 2,043 customers in an area bounded by Wellington, Rogge, 51st Street, Berkman, Cloverleaf, Ridgemont, Manor Road and Wheeless. Austin Energy is fully staffed on a regular work day and crews are working the outages.

You can check out Austin Energy's Storm map to see where power outages are by clicking here.

Flights at Austin's Airport

Lines are long at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Around 10 a.m., only one flight showed delays on ABIA's website, but it's probably a good idea to check your flight statusbefore heading out the door.