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Where local forecast offices no longer monitor weather around-the-clock
For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. That is no longer possible ...
A crucial NWS office, battered by cuts, is trying to put on a brave face as tornado season peaks
A congressional tour of the National Weather Service Quad Cities forecasting office revealed a skeleton crew trying to keep ...
First came the weather service staffing cuts. Then came the tornadoes.
As a storm system approached Jackson, in Southeastern Kentucky, on May 16, a few individuals agreed to work double shifts to ...
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Maps show EF-4 tornado's nearly 56-mile path through Laurel, Pulaski, Russell counties
A preliminary report released by the National Weather Service in Jackson, Kentucky May 21 provides ... senior forecaster for ...
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Kentucky NWS forecast office faced federal staffing cuts before deadly tornadoes hit
As destructive and deadly tornadoes bore down on Kentucky, National Weather ... which is served by the weather service's Jackson, Kentucky, forecast office. The office is one of four forecast ...
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Nearly half of National Weather Service offices have 20% vacancy rates, and experts say it’s a risk
Former National Weather Service chief Louis Uccellini said if the numbers are right, it’s trouble. “No one can predict when any office gets stretched so thin that it will break, but these ...
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What’s going on at the National Weather Service office in Houston?
No staff members from the Houston/Galveston office of the National Weather Service (NWS) were affected by the layoffs. However, several hundred employees across NOAA chose to take a voluntary ...