At least 59 people were killed by the flooding in Kerr County, Sheriff Larry Leitha said. At least 11 additional deaths were confirmed in surrounding counties, pushing the storm's overall toll to at least 70. That surpassed the estimated 68 deaths directly caused by Hurricane Harvey in southeast Texas in 2017.

At least 70 people have died and many children are missing in the Texas Hill Country after catastrophic flooding that left officials struggling to explain whether they did enough to warn people of the fast-rising waters.

Scores of rescuers were searching Saturday for children from a girls' camp and many others who were still missing after a wall of water rushed down a river in the Texas Hill Country during a powerful storm that killed at least 27 people,