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Tornado Fatalities: An In-Depth Look At Physical And Societal Influences, Heather Joann Key
Tornado Fatalities: An In-Depth Look At Physical And Societal Influences, Heather Joann Key
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study is to model and determine significant predictors of tornado death index values, and to investigate these significant predictors and what makes people vulnerable to tornado fatalities through expert interviews. This study also provides an understanding of the study participant’s perceptions of their county’s vulnerability to tornado fatality and demonstrates a true integration of methods and fields by studying geographic, meteorological, and sociological phenomena by use of quantitative and qualitative methods. The study consists of two parts: 1) A quantitative exploration of variables hypothesized to predict Tornado Death Index (TDI) values, 2) A qualitative investigation to …