Cold-season Tornado Risk Communication: Case Studies from November 2016 to February 2017

Childs, Samuel J.; Schumacher, Russ S.

doi:10.1175/wcas-d-17-0073.1

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“…QuestionPro.com is a U.S.-based online survey software platform that also has a research panel of five million active, prescreened, and qualified members who represent the general population. Publications arising from research conducted using QuestionPro have appeared mostly in reputed medical and health journals (e.g., Dutner, Mines, & Anderson, 2012; Egro, Saliu, Nahai, & Nguyen, 2017) as well as journals in education (e.g., Arenas, 2009; Mardis, 2009), environment (e.g., Childs & Schumacher, 2018), and communication (e.g., Boren, 2013; Hunt, Atkin, & Krishnan, 2012; Wang & Murphy, 2010). The authors requested Questionpro.com to access a random sample of respondents from their panel in the United States and paid QuestionPro.com US$5 for every completed response to the survey.…”

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Facts Over Stories for Involved Publics: Framing Effects in CSR Messaging and the Roles of Issue Involvement, Message Elaboration, Affect, and Skepticism

Dhanesh

Nekmat

2018

Management Communication Quarterly

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This project investigated how issue involvement and positive affect are related to attitude and behavioral intention in the context of episodically and thematically framed corporate social responsibility (CSR) messages. We examined mediation effects of message elaboration on issue involvement and affect as well as moderation effects of dispositional skepticism on the relationships between affect, and attitude and behavioral intention. Results from two message-embedded surveys show that for the two types of messages used, issue involvement was positively correlated with positive affect and, consequently, with attitude and behavioral intention. However, for episodically framed messages, route-of-information processing mediated the relationship between issue involvement and affect. Dispositional skepticism moderated the relationship between positive affect and attitude toward the organization for these messages but did not affect behavioral intention. Overall, the findings suggest that prioritizing fact-based messaging over

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Facts Over Stories for Involved Publics: Framing Effects in CSR Messaging and the Roles of Issue Involvement, Message Elaboration, Affect, and Skepticism

Dhanesh

Nekmat

2018

Management Communication Quarterly

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“…The common perception of tornadoes in the United States has historically been dominated by Tornado Alley, a region centered on the Great Plains in which tornadoes overwhelmingly occur in the late afternoon and early evening during springtime months (Kelly et al 1978;Brooks et al 2003;Coleman and Dixon 2014;Anderson-Frey et al 2016, 2017Krocak and Brooks 2018). In addition to this prominent Great Plains-centric discussion, the southeastern United States, nicknamed ''Dixie Alley'' (Schaefer et al 1980), also has been identified as a region of particular concern when it comes to tornado risk.…”

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Characteristics of Tornado Events and Warnings in the Southeastern United States

Anderson-Frey

Richardson

Dean³

et al. 2019

Weather and Forecasting

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The southeastern United States has become a prime area of focus in tornado-related literature due, in part, to the abundance of tornadoes occurring in high-shear low-CAPE (HSLC) environments. Through this analysis of 4133 tornado events and 16 429 tornado warnings in the southeastern United States, we find that tornadoes in the Southeast do indeed have, on average, higher shear and lower CAPE than tornadoes elsewhere in the contiguous United States (CONUS). We also examine tornado warning skill in the form of probability of detection (POD; percent of tornadoes receiving warning prior to tornado occurrence) and false alarm ratio (FAR; percent of tornado warnings for which no corresponding tornado is detected), and find that, on average, POD is better and FAR is worse for tornadoes in the Southeast than for the CONUS as a whole. These measures of warning skill remain consistent even when we consider only HSLC tornadoes. The Southeast also has nearly double the CONUS percentage of deadly tornadoes, with the highest percentage of these deadly tornadoes occurring during the spring, the winter, and around local sunset. On average, however, the tornadoes with the lowest POD also tend to be those that are weakest and least likely to be deadly; for the most part, the most dangerous storms are indeed being successfully warned.

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“…and to our families'' to have more pertinent geographical information in the warnings, interviewee 14 concluded. This desire for more place-based information is a common theme in risk communication of hazards (Nagele and Trainor 2012;Klockow et al 2014;Morss et al 2016;Childs and Schumacher 2018a).…”

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“…Within this area of enhanced hail activity, eastern Colorado has experienced some particularly damaging hailstorms in recent years. The 8 May 2017 Denver event became the second costliest hailstorm in U.S. history with an estimated $2.3 billion in damage; a 6 August 2018 hailstorm killed five animals and injured close to a dozen people at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs (Childs and Schumacher 2018b); and on 13 August 2019, the largest hailstone in state history was measured at 4.83 in. (122.6 mm) in Kit Carson County in far eastern Colorado.…”

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Agricultural Perspectives on Hailstorm Severity, Vulnerability, and Risk Messaging in Eastern Colorado

Childs

Schumacher

Demuth

2020

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Eastern Colorado is one of the most active hail regions in the U.S., and individual hailstorms routinely surpass millions of dollars in crop loss and physical damage. Fifteen semi-structured interviews with eastern Colorado farmers and ranchers were conducted in summer 2019 to gauge perceptions of the severity and vulnerability associated with hailstorms, as well as to understand how forecasts and warnings for severe hail are received and acted upon by the agricultural community. Results reveal a correspondence between perceived and observed frequency of hailstorms in eastern Colorado and highlight financial losses from crop destruction as the greatest threat from hailstorms. In contrast to the National Weather Service (NWS) defining severe hail as at least 1.0 in (25.4 mm) in diameter, the agricultural community conceptualizes hail severity according to impacts and damage. Small hail in large volumes or driven by a strong wind are the most worrisome scenarios for farmers, as small hail can most easily strip crop heads and stalks. Larger hailstones are perceived to pose less of a threat to crops but can produce significant damage to physical equipment and injure livestock. Eastern Colorado farmers and ranchers are avid weather watchers and associate environmental cues with hailstorms in addition to receiving warning messages, primarily via alerts on mobile phones. Hailstorms elicit feelings of dejection and anxiety in some respondents, while others accept hailstorms as part of the job. Increasing awareness of the agricultural perceptions of hailstorms can help the meteorological community direct hail prediction research efforts and improve risk communication to the agricultural sector.

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Cold-season Tornado Risk Communication: Case Studies from November 2016 to February 2017

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Facts Over Stories for Involved Publics: Framing Effects in CSR Messaging and the Roles of Issue Involvement, Message Elaboration, Affect, and Skepticism

Facts Over Stories for Involved Publics: Framing Effects in CSR Messaging and the Roles of Issue Involvement, Message Elaboration, Affect, and Skepticism

Characteristics of Tornado Events and Warnings in the Southeastern United States

Agricultural Perspectives on Hailstorm Severity, Vulnerability, and Risk Messaging in Eastern Colorado

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