As emergencies continue to impact communities in the USA on an unprecedented scale, it is
imperative for communities to look for effective ways to keep people safe and reduce future …

Abstract Recommendations by the National Research Council (NRC), the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Weather-Ready Nation workshop participants …

The term “tornado outbreak” appeared in the meteorological literature in the 1950s and was
used to highlight severe weather events with multiple tornadoes. The exact meaning of …

Social media has become an integrated part of human communication, both as a means to
establish and maintain social relationships, and as a means of sharing and co‐creating …

Techniques to efficiently discover, collect, organize, search, and disseminate real-time
disaster information have become national priorities for efficient crisis management and …

At present, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is develo** new
technologies that could offer explicit estimates of the probability that a thunderstorm could …

The US weather warning system is designed to help operational forecasters identify hazards
and issue alerts to assist people in taking life-saving actions. Assessing risks for separate …

This study explores the National Weather Service's communication through a multi-sited
rapid ethnography that extends the fully functioning society theory. National Weather Service …

This study aims to provide a more robust understanding of the elements involved in
emergency managers' decision-making processes when issuing hurricane evacuation …

This paper introduces a multi-stage optimization model that identifies an optimal evacuation
plan in response to spatial-temporal weather-events with track uncertainty. We establish …