Each year, more than 1,000 tornadoes affect communities across the United States. With an average of 44,000 households impacted and approximately two to three individuals per household, the Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates 111,000 people are exposed to tornadoes each year.
Yet very little is known about how individuals receive, interpret and respond to information that includes weather alerts such as tornado watches and tornado warnings.
The Tornado Tales survey instrument was designed to try and redress this. Developed during the pandemic and launched in the Spring of 2022, the instrument is now on its second iteration. The comic strip below shows how the project came about, how it was developed, and launched.
Adults in the United States who have been impacted by a tornado (even if a tornado was warned or severe weather made you concerned that a tornado could occur) can take the survey at any time.
You can find the survey at: https://inside.nssl.noaa.gov/tornado-tales/
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