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The search for missing bodies continues along the Guadalupe River in Texas after catastrophic and fatal floods killed at least 109 people following a torrential downpour early Friday evening.
The number of deaths includes at least 27 of the Camp All-Girls Mystic, a Christian summer camp nestled on the southern fork of the Guadalupe river, where the risk of flood was among the highest in the state, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
A large extent of the Guadalupe river between Hunt and Comfort, Texas, has seen generalized floods, according to a CNN analysis of data on hourly floods of the flood base.
CNN follows updates in cards and graphics. Here is what we know so far that the disaster has happened:
The National Weather Service published a flooding watch early Thursday afternoon at 1:18 p.m., which highlighted Kerrville, among other places, as being at risk of sudden flood during the night until Friday. This watch has planned 5 to 7 inches of precipitation for the event.
A flash flood warning, improved by the previous watch, was issued for parts of the County Kerr at 1:14 CT on Friday.
Then, an emergency warning for lightning floods was issued for the county of Kerr at 4:03 cm, followed by one specifically for Kerrville at 5:34 CT.
In the end, the most dropped parts of Texas saw up to 15 inches of rain, more than double what was planned the day before.
A gauge along the Guadalupe river, in Kerrville, shows that the water levels reached 23.4 feet at 4:45 am Friday morning, about 45 minutes before the specific warning for the city. The water levels at this location have almost certainly exceeded 23.4 feet, but the gauge did not save data for 3 hours, between 4:45 a.m. and 7:45 a.m., before resuming its data measurement.
At the Mystic Camp, which is located more than 20 miles west of Kerrville in the county of Kerr, Texas, around 107 gamekeepers and an aviation group attempted to access the camp on Friday morning, according to officials. Shortly afternoon, they were able to enter the camp and start saving children.
The floods ravaged Miles and Miles from the County of Kerr, including the cities of Kerrville, Ingram and Hunt, in addition to some of the locations of the summer camps along the river. While the storm was recovering on Friday, stories surfaced families and houses lost in houses, VR, airbnbs and more. Michelle Krupa and CNN Zoe Sottile share their stories here.
FEMA maintains a database in flood zones throughout the country. It maps regulatory flooding routes – places that will flood first and are the most dangerous – and areas that will flood extreme events.
At least two of the summer camps along the Guadalupe river were in known floodplates.
Five children and a Mystic camp advisor remains missing Tuesday afternoon.
Everyone at the Junta camp was safe and was taken into account, the camp announced on Friday.
– Angela Fritz of CNN contributed to this report.
