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Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas ...
According to the NWS-Brownsville report, two people in Sebastian, a small unincorporated area in Willacy County, died inside a “trailer-type house fire” caused by a lightning strike in the ...
NWS union says Central Texas office was prepared, but understaffed offices may not be Deadly flood in Texas sparks a debate over whether recent cuts and staffing shortages led to a greater loss of ...
On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key member of its team: the warning ...
A view of a dry resaca along Texas State Highway 100 Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald) This is especially true for Hidalgo and Brooks counties, the NWS said.
In the wake of the central Texas flash flooding, after local officials pointed fingers at the National Weather Service for its alerts and forecasts, the agency responded: The NWS alerts gave several ...
Goldsmith said NWS-Brownsville crews were fanning out across the region to assess the damage and to determine if any spots saw damaging winds in excess of 60 mph.
The National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio issued a flash flood warning at 1:14 a.m. CDT for Bandera and Kerr Counties, respectively. They made statements like, “Life threatening flash ...
At a news conference on Sunday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested flash flood alerts issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) did not fully convey the risks. "To most people in the area, flash ...
NWS forecasters union says there was adequate staffing when deadly floods swept through Central Texas, but warns other offices may not be as prepared.
Brian LaMarre, a former meteorologist-in-charge at the NWS’ Tampa office, who also served as a WCM in Lubbock, Texas, earlier in his career, told CNN any mistakes that led to so many lost lives ...