AUSTIN (KXAN) — The father of 18-year-old camp counselor Chloe Childress, who died during the deadly July Fourth flooding in the Texas hill country, says outdoor warning sirens could have saved lives.

Many Central Texas counties still don’t have outdoor warning sirens nearly two months after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new law requiring them in 30 flood-prone areas, a KXAN investigation found. We ...

A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for Sabine County, Nacogdoches County and San Augustine County until 5:45 p.m. A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued in Sabine County until 5:30 p ...

Maury County is installing its first tornado sirens following public demand after an EF-3 tornado destroyed multiple homes and killed one person in the city of Columbia in May 2024. The mostly rural ...

Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra, who also serves as the county’s emergency management director, said the city missed a crucial opportunity to alert residents. “We had an opportunity to utilize our ...

Severe storms ripped through Central Texas over the weekend, and while tornado warnings were issued near San Marcos, the city’s outdoor warning sirens did not sound, leaving some residents unaware of ...

A tornado watch has been issued for parts of far East Texas, along with portions of western and central Louisiana, the National Weather Service announced Tuesday afternoon. The watch will stay in ...

SAN MARCOS, Texas — According to a post on Facebook, the City of San Marcos is investigating the cause of the city’s weather sirens not going off during a tornado warning on Friday, Oct. 24. They say ...

The city of San Marcos has launched an investigation after outdoor warning sirens that had been upgraded to go off automatically in response to federally issued alerts did not sound on Friday night ...

Every year, an average of around 20 to 30 tornadoes strike the Palmetto State, but despite the amount of twisters, the number of operational tornado sirens is actually decreasing. According to ...

As a confirmed tornado tore through South-Central Texas late Friday night, one Hill Country city was caught off guard—not by the storm itself, but by the silence. The National Weather Service (NWS) ...

TERRELL — An old video appears to show the owner of a North Texas dive shop linked to the August drowning of a 12-year-old Rockwall girl speaking casually about previous deaths connected to his ...