Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

Key positions at National Weather Service offices across Texas are vacant, sowing doubt over the state’s ability to respond to natural disasters as rescuers comb through the flood-ravaged Hill Country.

Everyone in our area has the potential for heavy rain, but the best potential for flash flooding will be within the flood watch area. Rainfall rates within thunderstorms may be between 1″ and 3″ per hour,

Dallas faces a flood watch from the NWS due to potential heavy rains and thunderstorms amid high temperatures.

As Trump visits flood victims in Texas, know that the National Weather Service may be a federal agency, but saving lives depends on local resources.

With hurricane season underway and jobs still open at the National Weather Service, Alief native Matt Moreland will serve as meteorologist-in-charge.

Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives.

Amid criticism of budget cuts at NWS, Sen. Ted Cruz defended the agency, saying meteorologists did their job and were not short-staffed during the early morning hours of July Fourth.