Widespread storms rolled through North Texas late Wednesday causing localized flooding across parts of the region. Isolated showers and a few thunderstorms are forecast Thursday, though rainfall coverage is expected to be lower than Wednesday.

Texans warned to prepare for rising rivers as rain and thunderstorms move across the state. Emergency officials monitor for flooding.

Severe storms pummeled North Texas on Wednesday night, bringing heavy rain and lightning to the area. Residents assessed damage Thursday morning after the storms dumped record rainfall across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, collapsing roofs, flooding highways, and prompting high-water rescues.

A Texas judge on Wednesday declined to fully close Camp Mystic — the tragic epicenter of the July 4 floods that inundated the Texas Hill Country last year — but prevented the part of the camp where the deadly flooding occurred from being altered.

A Texas judge has declined to shut down Camp Mystic, where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year.

Repeated rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms will bring a growing risk of flash flooding from Texas to the Ohio Valley, with some rivers rising to moderate flood stage into next week.

A judge has declined to close Camp Mystic after the family of one of the 27 campers and staffers killed in last summer's deadly Hill Country flooding sued to that end earlier this year.

After flooding forced a shutdown, the Texas Energy Museum in Beaumont reopens with updated exhibits and a commitment to modernizing its historic collection.