Richard “Dick” Eastland began taking action after more than 2 inches of rain had fallen in the area along the Guadalupe River, a family spokesperson said.

Uncertainty surrounds whether the leader of Camp Mystic received a critical National Weather Service warning before deadly floods struck Texas, a spokesman for the camp’s operators has revealed. The ...

The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an ...

Early on the morning of July 4, NWS alerts began to light up the cellphones of people in the path of the Guadalupe River’s floodwaters. Yet those warning weren’t urgent — until, suddenly ...

Here’s a look at the warnings that preceded the deadly flooding: 2:15 p.m. The NWS in Albuquerque sent a Wireless Emergency Alert to cellphones in the Ruidoso area announcing a flash flood warning.

“The NWS leveraged advanced tools like the Amber Alert software to send critical flood warnings directly to wireless devices, ensuring widespread awareness,” Jackson wrote in an email.

The summer rainy season in New Mexico usually brings daily alerts about the potential for flooding around the arid state.