The federal agency that oversees the National Weather Service is siding with President Trump over the weather service’s Birmingham office in the week-long dispute over whether Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, or NOAA, suggested Friday that the NWS Birmingham’s Twitter account incorrectly stated Sunday that Alabama would not be impacted by Dorian by speaking “in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.”

The Birmingham office sent the tweet less 20 minutes after Trump tweeted Alabama would be in Dorian’s crosshairs:

In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated. Looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Already category 5. BE CAREFUL! GOD BLESS EVERYONE! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2019

Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east. #alwx — NWS Birmingham (@NWSBirmingham) September 1, 2019

Few forecasts at the time projected Alabama to be in Dorian’s path at the time, and ABC 33/40′s James Spann, the state’s preeminent meteorologist based in Birmingham, said Friday the Birmingham NWS was “spot on and accurate”:

The tweet from NWS Birmingham was spot on and accurate. If they are coming after them, they might as well come after me. How in the world has it come to this? https://t.co/73376v7Zpj — James Spann (@spann) September 6, 2019

But the president spent the week insisting he was correct. During a briefing on Dorian on Wednesday, Trump held up an earlier forecast of the hurricane with a black extended into Alabama in marker in an apparent attempt to validate his Sunday tweet.

Trump again brought attention to his claim of Alabama in the storm’s path by tweeting photos of forecasts from last week that estimated a 5 to 10 percent chance of tropical storm force winds for parts of southeast Alabama and the Mobile area .

The NOAA cited that forecast to suggest Trump was correct when he said Alabama would be impacted by the hurricane.

“From Wednesday, Aug. 28, through Monday, Sept. 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama. This is clearly demonstrated in Hurricane Advisories #15 through #41, which can be viewed at the following link,” the agency said in an email to AL.com. “The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.”

The Birmingham NWS office could not immediately be reached for comment, but Spann backed the Birmingham office in a tweet Friday: