A study found that 50 percent of people living across the Mid-South couldn't describe a tornado warning accurately.
Tornado warnings are widely misunderstood by half of those that live in the mid-southern U.S., new research has found.Cory Armstrong, a journalist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications, conducted research into how effective current weather alerts for extreme weather events are.An analysis of 679 people living in the Mid-South of the U.S.
Previous studies have found that a warming climate is exacerbating the conditions ideal for extreme storms, meaning ability to identify weather warnings could be becoming more important.'As a professional communicator, I am fascinated by how individuals receive and respond to various messaging,' Armstrong said in a statement.
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