Notice2024-09801
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Tornado Watch/Warning Post-Event Evaluation
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May 6, 2024
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 88 (Monday, May 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09801]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Tornado Watch/Warning Post-Event Evaluation
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on February 9th, 2024 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Tornado Watch/Warning Post-Event Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0797.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission: revision.
Number of Respondents: Surveys: 1,200, Interviews: 50.
Average Hours per Response: Surveys: 5-10 minutes, Interviews: 15-
30 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: Survey: 200 hours, Interviews: 25 hours.
Needs and Uses: Each year over 1000 tornadoes affect communities
across the United States, yet little is known about how individuals
receive, interpret, and respond to information from NOAA relating to
this hazard. In fact, only a small sample of tornadoes ever receive
study, and most often those are only the most violent tornadoes. No
generalizable, or even relatively large-scale information on tornado
forecast and warning response after real-world events exists. The NOAA
National Weather Service (NWS) and National Severe Storms Laboratory
(NSSL) designed the data collection instrument to allow for more
routine collection of this information. Respondents include members of
the United States public who have been in or near a tornado, received a
tornado warning, or were in or near a strong storm that made them
concerned about tornadoes. They answer questions about the ways they
received, understood, and responded to information about the event,
including NWS watch and warning information. This survey is delivered
through a web application hosted by NSSL called Tornado Tales,
available online at <a href="https://inside.nssl.noaa.gov/tornado-tales/">https://inside.nssl.noaa.gov/tornado-tales/</a>.
After approval of our initial data collection instrument (that
shown on the website), the OU Cooperative Institute for Severe and
High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) and NOAA NSSL
Behavioral Insights Unit carried out post-event data collections for
multiple tornado events, validating the questions and identifying
issues for improvement. This fieldwork led to several needed
improvements, including the addition of questions about the event more
broadly, changing some response types, rephrasing some questions that
were interpreted too broadly, and including questions about efficacy
and the availability of forecast information to individuals. While the
revisions have added questions to the survey, their improved clarity
should allow for faster response times per question. We estimate the
time to complete the survey is five to ten minutes on average. Subject
recruitment will primarily be done by NOAA NSSL and its partners
advertising the survey via websites and social media outlets. In
addition to these efforts, there is also the possibility that during
post-storm damage assessment activities NWS forecasters may direct
impacted individuals to the Tornado Tales website.
In addition to the changes to the survey instrument, researchers at
NOAA NSSL and at the OU CIWRO Behavioral Insights Unit would like to
conduct interviews with emergency managers, broadcast meteorologists,
and members of the public after certain tornado events. These more in-
depth interviews will collect similar information to the survey
instrument from members of the public, broadcast meteorologists, and
Emergency Management personnel who recently experienced a tornado
event. The interviews will walk respondents through a timeline of
events leading up to the tornado event. Researchers will use a skip-
logic approach, meaning participants will only answer questions about
the time periods relevant to their personal experience. The purpose of
these interviews will be to more thoroughly explore how residents,
broadcast meteorologists, and Emergency Managers received, understood,
and responded to tornado forecasts and warnings. Given the in-person
nature of these interviews, we expect them to take between 15 and 30
minutes on average.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: N/A.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0648-0797.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-09801 Filed 5-3-24; 8:45 am]
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