"A lot of the weather forecast offices now are not operating at full complement of staff," said the former lead of NOAA.

As searchers continue to look for victims in the deadly flash flooding in Texas, officials are answering questions about the weather forecasts ahead of and during the storm.

As the death toll in central Texas continues to rise in the wake of devastating flooding this weekend, some weather experts and local city officials have begun to shift blame to the National Weather Service (NWS),

The deadly floods that struck Texas on the 4th of July caught local officials off guard as the torrential rains caused the Guadalupe River to rise to near-historic levels in a matter of minutes, officials said at a press conference Saturday.