By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.

An updated flash flood warning was issued by the NWS Fort Worth TX on Monday at 5:25 a.m. in effect until 8:30 a.m. The warning is for Johnson, Bosque, Hamilton, Hill and Somervell counties.

Thousands of flash flood warnings have been issued across the country and the number of flash flood emergencies is near-record, too.

New flood warnings have been issued along the Guadalupe River in Texas less than two weeks after flooding killed more than 100 people.

Even when floods can be anticipated, communicating their severity to the public is a tall order. Because flash floods are very localized, even neighborhood-level warnings may seem like false alarms to some residents, leading to what the journalist Zoë Schlanger has dubbed “ alert fatigue .”

Sunday morning recovering efforts were suspended in Kerr County due to heavy rainfall and a new flash flood warning issued for the Hill Country.

"It's not community to community. It's a national system," Sen. Maria Cantwell said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

Emergency crews have suspended their search for victims of catastrophic flooding in central Texas amid new warnings that additional rain will again cause waterways to surge