Overview

• Flash floods swept through a girls’ camp in Kerr County before dawn on July 5, leaving at least 27 dead and dozens missing.
• The National Weather Service forecast predicted 3–6 inches of rain in the Concho Valley and 4–8 inches in the Hill Country, but the actual deluge exceeded those amounts.
• Texas Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd said the specific location’s rainfall was never reflected in any of the NWS forecasts.
• An internal New York Times document shows the NWS lost about 600 staffers under the administration’s DOGE program, degrading forecasting capacity.
• Former GOP representative Adam Kinzinger criticized Republicans for resisting funding for predictive weather programs while blaming the federal government for forecasting failures.