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.

"We are grieving alongside countless Texans whose lives have been upended by this tragedy," he wrote in a statement on Instagram.

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