People's past experiences with a hazard theoretically influence how they approach future
risks. Yet, past hazard experience has been conceptualized and measured in wide‐ranging …

This research examines the ways tornado experience influences an individuals' risk
perceptions. The work uses the 27 April 2011 Southeastern United States tornado outbreak …

The role of previous disaster experience as a motivating factor for protective action during
high-risk events is still a matter of considerable discussion and inconsistent findings in the …

Impacts of disaster on optimistic biases about personal risk and on a wide range of other
cognitions and affects were investigated. Residents of communities hit by severe tornadoes …

Recent advancements in severe weather detection and warning dissemination technologies
have reduced, but not eliminated, large‐casualty tornado hazards in the United States …

In this paper, we collect, categorize, and discuss the existence of numerous ways of knowing
about tornado threat that largely differ from the perspective taken by the meteorological …

Many warnings issued to members of the public are deterministic in that they do not include
event likelihood information. This is true of the current polygon-based tornado warning used …

142 subjects participated in a study of the relationship between selected predictors and
responses to potential tornado hazard. Results of backstep regression analyses indicated …

Effects of exposure to a severe weather disaster on perceived future vulnerability were
assessed in college students, local residents contacted through random-digit dialing, and …

Despite improvements in tornado Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), since the 1990s the
number, and proportion, of people dying in tornadoes in America has increased. This paper …