during a Midwestern rally due to inadequate warnings caused by staffing shortages.

Karma.

and increasingly it would seem they are not big fans of accurate weather reports either......imagine that

Incompetence hurts and eventually kills people.

So they lost the funds they were using for equipment and people and such...

Leaving surrounding offices to try and pick up the slack. I really don't understand you're statement.

it's the funding cuts to the equipment that is needed to collect atmospheric data to feed the forecast models. Less data gathered = less accurate forecasts.

The major models are run 4 times a day (hi-resolution convective ones being most important and those are run every hour) and without the most current data, there is more "guessing" going on.

I live in central Oklahoma, and I can guarantee that the meteorologists here were really upset about missing data from various areas during those storms, especially in Kansas. Weather here very often moves into Kansas, and weather conditions there affect those storms' movements here.

One of our tv meteorologists was trying to give a tornado update and mentioned missing data at several places where the storms were moving into Kansas. He said he would try to keep the most recent information coming, but only as far as possible since his responsibilities ended at the Oklahoma border and, he didn't have their weather information. He was very unhappy about the whole situation.

This has got to be fixed, as it intentionally puts people's lives and property at risk, sometimes in huge areas with thousands of homes, businesses, and lives. But then, when does he worry about small stuff like that? Maybe that will happen if one of his big donor's property or business gets wiped out.