A flash flood warning was issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 4:15 p.m. in effect until 7:15 p.m. for Lee County.

At 6:42 p.m. on Saturday, the National Weather Service released a flood advisory in effect until 9 p.m. for Chambers County.

Two top leaders in a rural Texas county were asleep and a third was out of town in the initial hours of a catastrophic flood that came barreling through the region, causing ...