On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key member of its team: the warning coordination meteorologist,

As search and recovery efforts continue following the deadly floods, NWS warns of isolated flash floods due to the possibility of heavy rain this weekend.⛈️

The Flood Watch covers most of the state, barring some counties in northwestern and southeastern Oklahoma, through at least Sunday afternoon.

Rain arrived in Dallas-Fort Worth Saturday evening, as the region is under a flood watch. Anywhere between 1 to 3 inches of rain — with some isolated spots of 4 inches or higher — is expected, according to the National Weather Service. Meanwhile, a flood watch that began Saturday afternoon is set to last until 7 p.m. Sunday.

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,

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

FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the flooding began on July 4.

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 government overspending.