WXS24

This report describes the results of a nationwide survey of Spanish speakers on severe weather in the United States. The 2024 Severe Weather and Society Spanish Survey (WXS24) was designed and administered by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA) at the University of Oklahoma. This is the fourth survey in the Severe Weather and Society Spanish series (see Krocak et al. 2021, Bitterman et al. 2023, and Bitterman et al. 2024 for information on WXS21, WXS22, and WXS23, respectively).WXS24 was fielded October 10 – November 7, 2024, using an online questionnaire that was completed by 412 U.S. adults (age 18+) that were recruited from an Internet panel. In order to complete the survey, respondents had to indicate that they speak Spanish “well” or “very well.” In addition to asking respondents many of the same questions as the WX surveys, the WXS surveys also asked respondents several experimental questions to test the way risk and probability are communicated to Spanish speakers. Like the WX surveys, the WX24 survey also includes more experiments related to SPC products and prototypes, including a test of the experimental interactive outlook and assessment of understanding, use and intended response for the Day 4-8 convective outlooks. This report presents an overview of methodology of the 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 survey design and data analysis.