WX19

The Severe Weather and Society Survey (WX) was designed and administered by the Center for Risk and Crisis Management (CRCM) at the University of Oklahoma. This is the third survey in the annual series (see Silva et al. 2017 and Silva et al. 2018 for information on WX17 and WX18). WX19 was fielded June 24 – July 6, 2019 using an online questionnaire that was completed by 3,006 U.S. adults (age 18+) that were recruited from an Internet panel that matches the characteristics of the U.S. population as estimated in the U.S. Census. Following WX17 and WX18, which were designed to establish baseline measures of the extent to which U.S. adults receive, understand, and respond to severe weather forecasts and warnings, WX19 was designed to continue and, in some cases, refine the measurement of these concepts. Additionally, WX19 measured public trust in the National Weather Service (NWS), extreme weather and climate risk perceptions, risk literacy, interpretations of probabilistic language, and extreme weather preparedness.