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Kerrville hit with more flash flooding halting search efforts along Guadalupe River

More Flash Flood Warnings were issued in Kerrville, Texas, on Sunday morning, halting search efforts along the Guadalupe River a little more than a week after catastrophic and deadly flooding across the region.

Yahoo · 1d

Kerr County Under Flash Flood, Halting Search Operations

More rain and flash flooding is ongoing throughout Central Texas, with life-threatening flash flood warnings in effect for many areas around the Hill Country, including hard-hit Kerr County. Search and rescue missions have been paused for Sunday,

StamfordAdvocate · 1d

Alert: Texas officials pause search for flood victims along the Guadalupe River due to heavy rains and new high water warnings

Texas officials pause search for flood victims along the Guadalupe River due to heavy rains and new high water warnings.

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Kerrville siren controversy heads to Texas legislature special session

State Rep. Wes Virdell, whose district includes Kerr County, voted against House Bill 13 earlier this year. The bill would ...

Grist on MSN3d

This Texas county asked for disaster resilience help. The flood came first.

Flooding is a fact of life in Texas Hill Country, a region home to a flood-prone corridor known as “Flash Flood Alley.” Judge ...

Waco Tribune-Herald1d

Emergency crews suspend search for flooding victims in central Texas amid new flood warnings

Emergency crews suspended their search for victims of catastrophic flooding in central Texas amid new warnings that more rain ...

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Texas flood: Kickoff meeting for Kerr County warning system project had been planned for mid-July

A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with ...

KRIS-TV1d

Kerrville did not have an outdoor warning system in place, but would one have made a difference?

Alerts were sent as campers slept—but the flood hit fast. Now some are wondering if a warning system would have helped, or was this simply Mother Nature moving too fast to be stopped?

The Texas Tribune on MSN4d

Kerrville mayor says he wasn’t aware of state resources that Gov. Abbott said were in place ahead of flooding

The governor said Tuesday that the state had “assets, resources and personnel” in place before the July 4 floods. On ...

Texas Floods: A timeline of NWS alerts

July 3, 2025 (~1:18 p.m. CDT): A Flood Watch was issued for south-central Texas, including Kerr County, based on radar and ...

Deadly Texas flash floods sparks controversy over Trump cuts to NWS, NOAA

As the death toll rose to nearly 100, some elected officials and experts say the flash flooding that engulfed the Guadalupe ...

The Texas Tribune on MSN2d

Did fiscal conservatism block plans for a new flood warning system in Kerr County?

In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to ...

4don MSN

Austin, Texas fire chief accused of refusing to send special rescue team to flood zone over $800K dispute with state

The Austin, Texas, fire chief is being accused of denying requests to send rescuers to Kerrville days before the catastrophic ...

Expert calls Kerr County flood alert delays ‘a point of failure’

An expert highlights a "point of failure" in Kerr County's emergency alerts during the flood. Why was Code Red sent at 10 a.m ...

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