TCS24

This report describes the results of a nationwide survey of Spanish speakers on tropical cyclones in the United States. The 2024 Tropical Cyclone Spanish Survey (TCS24) was designed and administered by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA) at the University of Oklahoma. It is the second time the survey has been translated into Spanish (see Bitterman et al. 2024 for more information on TCS23), though an English-language version of the survey has been fielded annually for the last five years. TCS24 was fielded August 28 – September 23, 2024, using an online questionnaire that was completed by 415 U.S. Spanish-speaking adults (age 18+) who self-reported that they speak Spanish at least “well” and were recruited from an Internet panel that matches the characteristics of the U.S. Spanish speaking population as estimated in the U.S. Census. The TCS23 survey, was designed to establish baseline measures of the extent to which U.S. Spanish-speaking adults receive, understand, and respond to tropical cyclone forecasts and warnings as well as trust in the National Weather Service (NWS), extreme weather perceptions, risk literacy, interpretations of probabilistic language, and weather preparedness, similar to the first iteration of the English version (TC20). The TCS24 survey refined these measures and included questions about associations between weather hazards and colors and further exploring effective strategies for probabilistic communication. This report briefly describes the methodology, survey data collection, data weighting, and a reproduction of the survey instrument with weighted means and frequencies for the questions that elicited numeric responses. NOAA’s Weather Program Office provided funding for this survey.