Overlapping Tornado and Flash Flood Warnings for the US

This project was designed to better understand how different experts and publics attended to, experienced, and made decisions about compound wind and water hazards before and during hurricanes. We collected two sets of data: Twitter data that captures mention of wind and water threats over the lifecycle of Hurricanes Florence and Harvey and interviews with National Weather Service Forecast meteorologists who issued warnings for wind and water threats before and during the storms. This project is unique in its triangulation of data from social media, which function as a digital ethnography of both different experts' and publics' reported experiences with compound wind and water threats, overlapping warning data collected for each storm, and from semi-structured interviews with five NWS Weather Forecast Offices a year after the storm. The audience for this data includes those desire to understand multiple perspectives on compound hurricane hazards and who conduct qualitative and social media analysis.