Machine learning classification of significant tornadoes and hail in the United States using ERA5 proximity soundings

VA Gensini, C Converse, WS Ashley… - Weather and …, 2021‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Previous studies have identified environmental characteristics that skillfully discriminate
between severe and significant-severe weather events, but they have largely been limited …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of probabilistic tornado warnings on risk perceptions and responses.

C Qin, S Joslyn, S Savelli, J Demuth… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Many warnings issued to members of the public are deterministic in that they do not include
event likelihood information. This is true of the current polygon-based tornado warning used …

Revisiting US nocturnal tornado vulnerability and its influence on tornado impacts

SM Strader, WS Ashley, AM Haberlie… - … , Climate, and Society, 2022‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
This research examines tornadoes and their fatalities by light condition (ie, daytime and
nighttime) for the United States. The study has two primary objectives: 1) to catalog and …

Assessment of NWS county warning area tornado risk, exposure, and vulnerability

SM Strader, AM Haberlie… - Weather, climate, and …, 2021‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
This study investigates the interrelationships between National Weather Service (NWS)
county warning area (CWA) tornado risk, exposure, and societal vulnerability. CWA …

An analysis of tornado warning reception and response across time: Leveraging respondents' confidence and a nocturnal tornado climatology

MJ Krocak, JN Allan, JT Ripberger… - Weather and …, 2021‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Nocturnal tornadoes are challenging to forecast and even more challenging to
communicate. Numerous studies have evaluated the forecasting challenges, but fewer have …

Hurricane vulnerability and constrained choices among mobile home park residents in South Florida

F Casanova, S Prasad… - … climate, and society, 2023‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
South Florida experiences some of the highest coastal hurricane vulnerability in the United
States. Mobile home communities in south Florida are particularly vulnerable to hurricanes …

[HTML][HTML] Tornado fatalities in context: 1995–2018

T Fricker, C Friesenhahn - Weather, climate, and society, 2022‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Tornadoes account for the third highest average annual weather-related fatality rate in the
United States. Here, tornado fatalities are examined as rates within the context of multiple …

Do we know our own tornado season? A psychological investigation of perceived tornado likelihood in the southeast United States

SB Broomell, G Wong-Parodi… - … Climate, and Society, 2020‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Reducing fatalities from tornadoes in the southeastern United States requires considering
multiple societal factors, including the risk perceptions that influence how people interpret …

[HTML][HTML] Factors that influenced preferences regarding use of public and private tornado shelters during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020

JA Saba, CL Williams, MJ Egnoto, SM Strader… - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study examines factors sha** individuals' preferences for use of tornado shelters in
public and private facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing over 6,000 surveys …

The regionality and seasonality of tornado trends in the United States

M Graber, RJ Trapp, Z Wang - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2024‏ - nature.com
Continued efforts to build human resilience to the impacts of tornadoes require updated
knowledge of tornado occurrences as well as how their occurrence characteristics may be …