Safe, Shelter and Situational Awareness

Interviews were conducted with residents of Smithville, Mississippi following an EF5 tornado in April, 2011 that killed 16 people. The purpose of the interviews was to determine how information was used just before the tornado touched down. Individuals who were at home searched for more different types of information, and individuals in cars looked for or received the fewest types of information. The individual stories of those who did not try to find a safer place during the tornado do not...