More than 50 people have died and dozens of children are missing in Texas Hill Country after catastrophic flooding, leaving officials struggling to explain if they had done enough to warn people of the fast-rising waters.

Several factors, both meteorological and geographical, created a nightmare recipe for flash flooding across the Texas Hill Country.

A flash flood in the Texas Hill Country killed at least 27 and left many missing, mostly campers from Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River.