Texas, National Weather Service and Floods
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Everyone in our area has the potential for heavy rain, but the best potential for flash flooding will be within the flood watch area. Rainfall rates within thunderstorms may be between 1″ and 3″ per hour,
Key positions at National Weather Service offices across Texas are vacant, sowing doubt over the state’s ability to respond to natural disasters as rescuers comb through the flood-ravaged Hill Country.
I believe there have been failures at every level of government, from the county to the state and the federal,” Doggett told MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi.
In the wake of last week’s catastrophic floods in the Texas Hill Country, on Friday Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency
Dallas faces a flood watch from the NWS due to potential heavy rains and thunderstorms amid high temperatures.