Explicating experience: Development of a valid scale of past hazard experience for tornadoes

JL Demuth - Risk analysis, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
People's past experiences with a hazard theoretically influence how they approach future
risks. Yet, past hazard experience has been conceptualized and measured in wide‐ranging …

Perceptions and expected immediate reactions to tornado warning polygons

MK Lindell, SK Huang, HL Wei, CD Samuelson - Natural Hazards, 2016 - Springer
To provide people with more specific information about tornado threats, the National
Weather Service has replaced its county-wide warnings with smaller warning polygons that …

Mobile home resident evacuation vulnerability and emergency medical service access during tornado events in the southeast United States

SM Strader, K Ash, E Wagner, C Sherrod - International journal of disaster …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tornado mortality is greatest in the Southeast United States (US) due to an elevated tornado
risk, a larger total developed land area, and a greater number of mobile and manufactured …

Tornado folk science in Alabama and Mississippi in the 27 April 2011 tornado outbreak

KE Klockow, RA Peppler, RA McPherson - GeoJournal, 2014 - Springer
In this paper, we collect, categorize, and discuss the existence of numerous ways of knowing
about tornado threat that largely differ from the perspective taken by the meteorological …

Facebook and Twitter, communication and shelter, and the 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado

C Stokes, JC Senkbeil - Disasters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper represents one of the first attempts to analyse the many ways in which Facebook
and Twitter were used during a tornado disaster. Comparisons between five randomly …

Measuring tornado warning reception, comprehension, and response in the United States

JT Ripberger, MJ Krocak, WW Wehde… - Weather, Climate …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Social criteria are important to achieving the mission of the National Weather Service.
Accordingly, researchers and administrators at the NWS increasingly recognize a need to …

Media disaster reporting effects on public risk perception and response to escalating tornado warnings: A natural experiment

M Zhao, H Rosoff, RS John - Risk analysis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research has evaluated public risk perception and response to a natural hazards in
various settings; however, most of these studies were conducted either with a single …

Staying safe in a tornado: A qualitative inquiry into public knowledge, access, and response to tornado warnings

JE Walters, LR Mason, K Ellis… - Weather and …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tornadoes in the southeastern United States continue to cause substantial injury, death, and
destruction. The present study seeks to 1) understand inadequate warning access, less …

Predictors of compliance with tornado warnings issued in Joplin, Missouri, in 2011

BK Paul, M Stimers, M Caldas - Disasters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Joplin, a city in the southwest corner of Missouri, United States, suffered an EF‐5 tornado in
the late afternoon of 22 May 2011. This event, which claimed the lives of 162 people …

Factors influencing people's decision-making during three consecutive tornado events

SM Miran, C Ling, L Rothfusz - International journal of disaster risk …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract On May 19th, 20th, and 31st 2013, three tornadoes with different intensities struck
the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. A set of survey data was collected from residents in …