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

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,

Meteorologists say incredible amounts of moisture in the air fueled a storm that moved slowly over central Texas, creating conditions for fatal flash floods.

As Trump visits flood victims in Texas, know that the National Weather Service may be a federal agency, but saving lives depends on local resources.

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

This is false. It is not possible that cloud seeding generated the floods, according to experts, as the process can only produce limited precipitation using clouds that already exist.