Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they saw the warnings or whether they saw them in time to take action.

A week after the devastating Texas flooding, serious questions remain about what actions local leaders took after ominous warnings from the National Weather Service, echoing other recent high-profile natural disasters marked by accusations of government complacency.

Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.

Several local officials had tried to convince the community nearly a decade ago to fund a new early flood warning system but were unsuccessful, a Chronicle investigation found.  INVESTIGATION: Camp Mystic was required to have evacuation plans.

Dispatch audio has surfaced from the critical hours before a deadly flood hit its height in Kerr County, helping piece together the timeframe local officials have yet to provide amid public scrutiny of their decisions on July 4.

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in Kerr County on the Fourth of July.

State and local officials in Texas have come under scrutiny over the lack of sirens in place to warn people of impending flash flooding.

Officials in Kerr County, Texas — where 27 campers and counselors at a Christian summer camp were killed in catastrophic flooding — had discussed installing a flood warning system