Scattered thunderstorms are ongoing this evening for parts of North Texas. This activity is expected to continue overnight and throughout Sunday. While not a washout for the area, where storms do set up, they are carrying abundant moisture, leading to rain rates as high as 2" per hour in some spots.

The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.

This part of Texas Hill Country is known for flash floods. Why were so many people caught off guard when the river turned violent?

Key positions at National Weather Service offices across Texas are vacant, sowing doubt over the state’s ability to respond to natural disasters as rescuers comb through the flood-ravaged Hill Country.

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.

Texas on Saturday faces an upper-atmosphere wave of low pressure that could trigger storms and an increasingly deep flow of Gulf moisture.

The risk for flash flooding will return to the southern Plains a week after the devastating flooding in Texas Hill Country.

A firefighter appears to have called for emergency alerts at least an hour before the first warnings were received.