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

President Donald Trump toured the devastation left by flash flooding in central Texas amid growing questions about how local officials responded to the crisis as well as questions about the federal response -- including the fate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- that he has so far avoided.

The first weather emergency alert sent by the National Weather Service with urgent language instructing people to "seek higher ground now" was sent at 4:03 a.m. local time.

Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began to swell.

A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.

While the type of flooding we typically see in Houston is vastly different than the flash flooding along the Guadalupe River, the way emergency officials offer warnings is similar.

Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert the type of disaster that swept away dozens of youth campers and others in Kerr County,

Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.