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Description
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This report describes the results of a nationwide survey on tropical cyclones in the United States. The 2024 Tropical Cyclone Survey (TC24) was designed and administered by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA) at the University of Oklahoma. It is the fifth survey in the annual series (see Ripberger et al. 2020, Krocak et al. 2021, Bitterman et al. 2022, and Bitterman et al. 2023 for more information on the TC20, TC21, TC22 and TC23 surveys, respectively). It was fielded August 27 – September 18, 2024, using an online questionnaire that was completed by 1,191 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 TC20 survey, the first in this series, was designed to establish baseline measures of the extent to which U.S. adults receive, understand, and respond to tropical cyclone forecasts and warnings as well as trust in the National Weather Service (NWS), extreme weather and climate risk perceptions, risk literacy, interpretations of probabilistic language, and weather preparedness. The TC21 survey refined these measures and included a few questions about information preferences along the event timeline. The latest iteration of the survey, TC22, continued to track these baseline measures, while adding questions that test experiments related to the level of trust the public places in broadcast meteorologists and public perceptions of flood and storm surge products. The TC23 survey maintains these baseline questions while adding experiments related to equity in storm recovery and probabilistic communication. In this most recent iteration, TC24 kept those same base measures while adding questions about associations between weather hazards and colors and further exploring effective strategies for probabilistic communication. This report briefly describes the methodology, survey data collection, data weighting, and a reproduction of the survey instrument with weighted means and frequencies for the questions that elicited numeric responses. NOAA’s Weather Program Office provided funding for this survey.
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