Emergency officials are starting to focus on alert systems as they search for answers about how the flash flooding swept away so many.

Flood watches have been issued by the National Weather Service until at least 7 p.m. CT July 6 in Hill Country and along the I-35 corridor. The Weather Prediction Center added that scattered thunderstorms are likely to drop "torrential downpours over sensitive soils across parts of the Texas Hill Country."

Braxton Jarmon, an incoming sophomore and a “cherished member of The Glenn Grizzly Band,” is among those confirmed dead after deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country.