The devastating flooding in central Texas on July 4 led some officials to point fingers at the National Weather Service (NWS) Defending itself, the NWS said its emergency alerts gave several hours of ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service have expanded an online tool that ...

Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Greg Lundeen with the National Weather Service's El Paso Office explained what meteorologists look for when they're building the forecast. "We'll focus our attention on the areas where the potential ...

As early as Wednesday, Texas officials were marshalling the state’s emergency response resources to prepare for the coming storm. By Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service’s Austin/San ...

But when the storm unleashed its historic ferocity in the early hours of Friday morning, many were caught by surprise. Heavy downpours lifted the Guadalupe River 26 feet in just 45 minutes. First ...

Up to five major hurricanes, classified as category 3 or higher, are predicted to form in the Atlantic Ocean before the end of November, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather ...