As a storm system approached Jackson, in Southeastern Kentucky, on May 16, a few individuals agreed to work double shifts to ...

Did alerts go out? What type of alerts did people receive? National Weather Service and others have said the Jackson office ...

Additionally, there was no evidence that tornado sirens in the area had been deactivated by the Trump administration's budget ...

Trump weakened understaffed National Weather Service offices. Some people in the storms' paths wonder if budget cuts ...

That includes one in Cheyenne, Wyo. The staff is currently down by almost half because of the federal hiring freeze and ...

The Jackson, Kentucky, weather service office recently cut overnight staff but meteorologists were called in to handle the deadly tornado outbreak.

Due to staffing shortages, the National Weather Service in Jackson no longer has overnight staff. But NWS and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear say the office was staffed Friday night and early Saturday.

As Chairman of the (subcommittee) that funds the National Weather Service, I will work to ensure that our weather offices ...

"As planned in advance, neighboring offices provided staffing support to the office in Jackson, KY," stated the weather service. "Additionally, the Jackson office remained fully staffed through ...

Bracing for thunderstorms, damaging winds, flooding, hail, and tornadoes, the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky, had to pre-plan staffing schedules to ensure round-the-clock ...

The National Weather Service said it would cut around-the-clock staffing at its Goodland, Kansas, forecast office. Just over a week later, a tornado tore through Grinnell, Kansas.