Experts said warnings issued in the run-up to this weekend’s flooding were as timely and accurate as possible, but questions about whether the alerts reached people most at risk remain.

Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

Texas forecasters issued a series of early-morning warnings about “life-threatening flooding” along the Guadalupe River.

Everyone in our area has the potential for heavy rain, but the best potential for flash flooding will be within the flood watch area. Rainfall rates within thunderstorms may be between 1″ and 3″ per hour,

Dallas faces a flood watch from the NWS due to potential heavy rains and thunderstorms amid high temperatures.

Key positions at National Weather Service offices across Texas are vacant, sowing doubt over the state’s ability to respond to natural disasters as rescuers comb through the flood-ravaged Hill Country.

The White House is defending the National Weather Service and accusing some Democrats of playing politics in the wake of devastating floods in Texas.

NWS says Flash Flood Warnings were issued on July 3 and early July 4 in Central Texas, giving more than three hours of warning.

"A lot of the weather forecast offices now are not operating at full complement of staff," said the former lead of NOAA.

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.