Tropical Storm Alberto makes landfall in Mexico | Tropical rainfall for Central Texas Wednesday evening

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While the rainfall totals have trended down for Central Texas, we’re still expecting up to 4 inches of rain in spots with a minor flood risk.

Author: Jordan Darensbourg, Shane Hinton (KVUE), Hunter Williams (KVUE)

Published: 10:09 AM CDT June 19, 2024

Updated: 7:41 AM CDT June 20, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas — Tropical Storm Alberto formed in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday morning, making it the first named system of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Alberto officially made landfall Thursday morning in Mexico and will continue to fall apart over land throughout Thursday. Although the center of Alberto is more than 600 miles away from Austin, the outer most tropical rain band will continue to bring rainfall through Thursday.

While the heaviest rain has already moved west of the Hill Country Thursday morning, additional scattered showers will be possible for the afternoon. This activity will be hit or miss, but where the downpours form there could be locally heavy rain. The overall rain chance on Thursday is about 50 percent.

The bottom line for Central Texas

Although the heaviest rain has already moved west, some additional scattered tropical showers will be possible on Thursday. Some of these showers could contain heavy downpours, but the overall severe weather threat on Thursday is low.

Make sure you are keeping up with the forecast and have a reliable way to get alerts such as the KVUE app.