On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key member of its team: the warning ...

Texas NWS office had no warning coordination meteorologist during the flood. Did it make a difference?

Some NWS offices are now so poorly staffed, they are no longer operating 24/7 and are not launching weather balloons — a vital source of weather data — at their typical cadence of twice a day.

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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key ...

And notably, the meteorologist-in-charge of the Austin/San Antonio office is a former WCM as well, according to Erica Grow Cei, a spokesperson for the NWS.