Session 1 How People Respond: Decision-Making and Response to Warnings

Thursday, 23 June 2011: 8:15 AM-10:00 AM
Ballroom D (Cox Convention Center)
Host: The Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication
Chair:
Quyen Arana, University of Oklahoma, Communication, Norman, OK

Papers:
8:15 AM
Welcoming Remarks: Nate Johnson, WRAL-TV/NC State University

8:30 AM
1.1
Uses of weather warnings by varied people for different purposes
Catherine Smith, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
9:00 AM
1.3
An evaluation of convective warning utilization by the general public
Christopher M. Godfrey, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC; and P. Wolf, M. K. Goldsbury, J. A. Caudill, and D. P. Wedig
9:15 AM
1.4
The high wind warning dilemma
Thomas W. Schmidlin, Kent State University, Kent, OH
9:30 AM
1.6
Evacuee perception of landfall location, track, and hazards associated with Hurricane Gustav
Jason C. Senkbeil, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and D. M. Brommer
9:45 AM
Discussion

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