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Iastfan112
Posted 7/6/2025 20:56 (#11288515 - in reply to #11288032)
Subject: RE: Kerrville Texas


NC Iowa

Flood watch was issue the prior afternoon:

https://x.com/NWSSanAntonio/status/1940856976067776984

For the camps in particular this should have put them on alert given they are located in flood prone areas

Followed by: 

All NWS flash flood warnings, including the one issued after midnight on Friday, trigger Wireless Emergency Alerts, the emergency push notification sent through cellphone towers to all wireless phones in the emergency area, Fogarty said. That warning was updated nine times throughout Friday, each of which triggered separate alerts through the Emergency Alert System and the Wireless Emergency Alerts, Fogarty said.

The most serious warning came at 4:03 a.m. when the NWS issued a flash flood emergency, warning of an “extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation” and urging immediate evacuations to higher ground. Flash flood emergencies are issued using a mixture of rainfall data and on-the-ground reports: “Someone has told us we need to get people out of here immediately or people are going to die,” Fogarty said.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/texas-hill-country-floods-warning-forecast-nws/

The warnings went out, this would have alerted on weather radios and properly calibrated phone WEA's. If we're portioning out blame I'd say it seems likely the camp failed in one of two terrible ways, either they were asleep at the wheel in terms of even receiving the alerts or they had a woefully inadequate emergency response plan. To a lesser extent for blame it certainly seems the local officials needed to be more proactive in the overnight hours once it was clear there was a crisis looming.



Edited by Iastfan112 7/6/2025 20:57
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