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

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

As hurricane season looms, the effects of DOGE cuts on the U.S. forecasting and alert system are a new menace.

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Residents in Kentucky and Missouri sifted through damage in tornado-stricken neighborhoods, still on edge ...

The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of at least four such facilities across the country that is so short-staffed that it is ...

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

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

There are more warnings of storms and tornadoes after the US was struck by severe weather that killed at least 28 people and ...

the SPC issued a tornado watch for eastern Kentucky, among other places. The next level of weather alert is a "tornado warning," issued by local weather offices when they learn there's a tornado ...

Even as the twister in eastern Kentucky passed, people began to speculate that NWS staffing cuts contributed to the death toll. Their suspicion stemmed from the tornado warning’s upgrade to a ...

The Storm Prediction Center had tallied 883 local tornado reports this year as of Monday, which was 35% higher than average ...