Early on the morning of July 4, NWS alerts began to light up the cellphones of people in the path of the Guadalupe River’s floodwaters. Yet those warning weren’t urgent — until, suddenly ...

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

Thousands of flash flood warnings have been issued across the country and the number of flash flood emergencies is near-record, too.

NWS flood warnings came hours in advance, but still may not have reached victims City and state officials have questioned if National Weather Service warnings adequately described the flooding ...