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The Jackson, Kentucky, weather service office recently cut overnight staff but meteorologists were called in to handle the ...
As a storm system approached Jackson, in Southeastern Kentucky, on May 16, a few individuals agreed to work double shifts to ...
The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of at least four such facilities across the country that is so short-staffed that it is ...
The impact of staffing cuts to the National Weather Service was tested on Friday when an eastern Kentucky office had to use ...
Gov. Andy Beshear said Saturday that there were no problems with weather alerts after devastating tornadoes hit Kentucky ...
The office in Jackson, Ky., is one of several left without an overnight forecaster after hundreds of jobs were recently cut ...
Due to staffing shortages, the National Weather Service in Jackson no longer has overnight staff. But NWS and Kentucky Gov.
Did alerts go out? What type of alerts did people receive? National Weather Service and others have said the Jackson office ...
The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of a growing number of forecast offices unable to cover an overnight shift since the Trump administration cut staffing levels through buyouts and firings.
Trump weakened understaffed National Weather Service offices. Some people in the storms' paths wonder if budget cuts ...