A Weather-Ready Nation for All? The Demographics of Severe Weather Understanding, Reception, and Response
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22332060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael D Smith (0000-0001-9709-4485, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Alaska Fisheries Science Center), John E Ten Hoeve (NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research), Christopher Lauer (United States Coast Guard), Vankita Brown (0000-0001-8841-9698, d NOAA/Office of Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-262 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Weather, Climate, and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1948-8327 • E-ISSN: 1948-8335 |
| Publisher | American Meteorological Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1175/wcas-d-22-0056.1 |
| OpenAlex | W4313888266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 19 |
NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) provides forecasts, warnings, and decision support to the public for the protection of life and property. The NWS Weather-Ready Nation model describes the process of applying weather information to achieve societal value. However, it is not clear how different racial and socioeconomic groups across the United States receive, understand, and act upon the weather information supplied under this model. There may be barriers that keep important, lifesaving information from the populations at the highest risk of severe weather impacts. This paper estimates the extent of racial and socioeconomic disparities in severe weather risk information reception, comprehension, response, and trust, as well as severe weather preparedness and risk perceptions in the United States. We use data from the University of Oklahoma’s Severe Weather and Society Survey, which is annually completed by a sample of 3000 U.S. adults (age 18+) that is designed to match the characteristics of the U.S. population. We pool data over four years (2017–20) to provide reliable severe weather risk prevalence statistics for adults by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic characteristics. As a robustness check, we supplement this information with data from the annual FEMA National Household Survey. We find that racial and socioeconomic groups receive, understand, trust, and act upon severe weather information differently. These findings suggest that NWS and their partners should adjust their communication strategies to ensure all populations receive and understand actionable severe weather information
American Community Survey · Census · Climate change · Environmental health · Extreme weather · Geography · Meteorology · Political science · Population · Preparedness · Severe weather · Socioeconomic status · Storm · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Medicine · Risk Perception and Management
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |