1.1 How Real People React in a Tornado Warning

Wednesday, 26 June 2013: 3:30 PM
Two Rivers (Sheraton Music City Hotel)
Michael R. Smith, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions, Inc., Wichita, KS

Social scientists predict how the average person reacts to a tornado warning. Meteorologists sometimes disagree with those assessments. A video of college students reacting to a tornado warning as a tornado approaches their dormitory reveals important insight as to how people actually react to tornado warnings This knowledge can be used to design more effective warning strategies.
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