Texas, National Weather Service and flood
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The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.
Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.
Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said
The Flood Watch covers most of the state, barring some counties in northwestern and southeastern Oklahoma, through at least Sunday afternoon.
Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives.After torrential rains and flash flooding struck Friday in the Texas Hill Country,