WX17

The Severe Weather and Society Survey (WX17) was designed and administered by the Center for Risk and Crisis Management (CRCM) at the University of Oklahoma. WX17 was fielded in June 2017 using an online questionnaire that was completed by 2,009 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. The survey was designed to establish baseline measures of the extent to which U.S. adults receive, understand, and respond to severe weather forecasts and warnings. Additionally, the survey measured public preferences about tradeoffs during the forecast process (e.g., lead time vs. accuracy/precision of warnings), trust in the National Weather Service (NWS), hazard risk literacy, the relative importance of probability and intensity in risk characterization, and the value of geographically specific and continuous severe weather warnings, such as those envisioned by the Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs) framework.