Texas, Flash flood
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The NWS Fort Worth TX issued a flood advisory at 8:37 p.m. on Saturday in effect until 11:45 p.m. The advisory is for Collin, Dallas and Denton counties.
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
Texas on Saturday faces an upper-atmosphere wave of low pressure that could trigger storms and an increasingly deep flow of Gulf moisture.
As heavy rains led to heartbreaking losses at a Texas girls camp, other parts of the state were swamped over the July 4 weekend.
President Donald Trump has indicated wanting to phase out FEMA and have emergency responses be handled by states. Though the president has avoided talking about those plans after the Texas flood.
Heavy rains fell quickly in the predawn hours of Friday in the Texas Hill Country, causing the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes.
There was little indication of how torrential the Texas downpours would become before dawn. At least 27 people were killed, many of them children at Camp Mystic.