For many families, the most serious warnings about the deadly and raging torrent in Texas Hill Country on July 4 came too ...

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The National Weather Service issued an urgent flood warning at 1:14 a.m. July 4th. Camp personnel did not start moving girls ...

Eight-year-old girls at sleep-away camp, families crammed into recreational vehicles, local residents traveling to or from ...

An inch to 2 inches of rainfall has already been recorded this morning across the warning area, and an additional inch to 2 ...

By midweek, a subtropical high pressure system will nudge into Texas from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing a drying trend across ...

For a second straight day, rain forecasts hampered the search Monday for people still missing after deadly floods pummeled ...

Earlier Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) for San Antonio warned that a "dangerous situation is occurring" in areas ...

Ground search operations were disrupted Sunday in Kerr County, Texas, where many lives were lost in the catastrophic July 4 ...

Forecasters explained that two mesoscale convection vortexes — one near Waco, and one near the Rio Grande — pulled in storm ...

Gary, DeeAnn, Jake and Megan all lost their lives. Harley is still among the missing. Both families lived in Canyon Lake but ...

A flood watch was in effect for more than a dozen counties as authorities resumed the search for victims of the July 4 tragedy.