Thomas Fahy, the Office Legislative Director for the National Weather Service Employees Union, says their San Angelo and San Antonio, Texas offices had enough staff to send alerts and warnings to the public before the deadly floods,

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.

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

Staffing issues at the National Weather Service in Tucson could be impacting the accuracy of monsoon storm predictions, according to a former University of Arizona atmospheric science

In the wake of staff reductions at the National Weather Service nationwide, the North Little Rock office has cut back on some services, including the permanent elimination of Hazardous Weather Outlook and Agricultural Observations,

For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the breaking point when the Trump administration began pushing new staffing cuts.

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Little Rock Friday announced temporary cutbacks to several public-facing services due to ongoing staffing shortages and a federal hiring

The first weather emergency alert sent by the National Weather Service with urgent language instructing people to "seek higher ground now" was sent at 4:03 a.m. local time.