Severe weather can happen any day of the year.
If you are in its path, you’ll probably get a warning in the form of a shrill alarm on your cellphone or text scrolling across the TV screen.
But what actually causes people to respond to these warnings?
Here’s how it works and how you might convince your uncle, for instance, that he really does need to evacuate ahead of the next hurricane.
This means it is important for a warning to be more specific than, for example, saying that a tornado is headed toward Eastern Tennessee.
Persons:
Kathleen Sherman, Morris
Organizations:
Mississippi State University
Locations:
Eastern Tennessee