Texas, Flooding and weather forecasts
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On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key member of its team: the warning coordination meteorologist,
The first weather emergency alert sent by the National Weather Service with urgent language instructing people to "seek higher ground now" was sent at 4:03 a.m. local time.
The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.
Texas forecasters issued a series of early-morning warnings about “life-threatening flooding” along the Guadalupe River.
Search crews continued the grueling task of recovering the missing as more potential flash flooding threatened Texas Hill Country.
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
US President Donald Trump has reassured Kerrville, Texas, residents that the government would help rebuild after floods hit the central part of the state last week, killing at least 121 people. The president and First Lady Melania Trump met on Friday with local officials on the ground - at one point standing in front of an upended tractor trailer - and surveyed the damage.