Flash flood alley is a curved-shaped region about 300 miles long and 50 miles wide in central/south-central Texas, extending from north of Dallas to southwest of San Antonio. Its location, weather patterns, and geology often combine to create devastating floods.

Flash floods in Texas killed at least 82 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend and left others still missing, including girls attending a summer camp. The devastation along the Guadalupe River,

Disastrous flash floods from a raging central Texas river have killed at least 51 people, a total that may increase

Authorities in central Texas are looking for dozens of people still missing after Friday's devastating pre-dawn floods caused the banks of Kerr County's Guadalupe River to collapse. A total of 82 people are confirmed dead,

The Guadalupe River basin had drawn July Fourth weekend revelers to its youth and family campgrounds, RV parks and apartment rentals. But this basin was also prone to flash flooding – and soon an entire summer’s worth of rain would begin to fall.

Eyewitness Tonia Fucci recounted the destruction that followed deadly floods in Comfort, central Texas, near the Guadalupe River on July 4.