This is a request for revision and extension of an approved information collection. The previously approved collection is called Phase I and the revision and extension are called Phase II.
The Phase II collection is also sponsored by the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI). The collection is permitted under 15 USC Ch. 111, Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation, that directs NOAA to focus on improving its understanding of how the public receives, interprets, and responds to warnings and forecasts of high impact weather events that endanger life and property. The purpose of the collection is to improve how the NWS communicates risks posed by hazardous weather or water events to the public that are most likely to result in action to mitigate the risk. Information from this collection will help the agency meet its mission to âprovide weather, water and climate data, forecasts, warnings, and impact-based decision support services for the protection of life and property and enhancement of the national economy.â
Phase II will continue the work using an online survey system for collecting data on the publicsâ perception and response to four different hazards: tornados, thunderstorm winds over 70 miles per hour (mph), flash floods, and winter weather. The online surveys provide event-based reports on hazardous weather events for National Weather Service Forecast Offices, and are building blocks for a multi-year, cross-sectional organized collection of human perception and response data. The survey system enables individual National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) to disseminate Quick Response Surveys (QRS) soon after a hazardous event occurs to collect perishable data on the publicsâ perceptions and response to the event. WFOs distribute the QRS using web links on NWS social media and core partnersâ social media or email lists. Surveys ask the public questions on timing, location, weather information sources, motivations and influences for taking protective action to gain insights into how NWS warning communications interact with these factors to result in protective action behaviors.
The collection is being revised to remove the longitudinal Weather and Society Surveys. The agency no longer collects information using these longitudinal surveys.
The longitudinal Weather & Society surveys were removed from this collection as these surveys are no longer being conducted. The number of respondents for the Quick Response Surveys has increased as more NWS offices are seeking to use this collection.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
NWS Winter Weather Survey
0648-0805 30-Day 90 FR 39184 2025-0814.pdf
0648-0805 Supporting Statement Part B_2025.09.04.docx
Quick Response Surveys (Flash Flood, Winter Wx, Tornado)