Emergency managers (EMs) and National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters routinely work together during natural disasters involving weather.  Such disasters include hurricanes, tornadoes, severe windstorms, severe winter storms, wildland fires and so on. Emergency managers and their staff are often the first point of contact for NWS forecasters during a developing weather calamity. This study is designed to provide demographic information on the emergency management community — information that should help facilitate improved communications between these two key groups.

The data provided via the "Data" tab are from a quality-controlled version of the larger Excel file collected during the demographic study.  This larger file will appear for public use sometime in the future.  Meanwhile, if you would like to use any of these preliminary results/graphs please acknowledge us as, "graphs (data) courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), website: http://www.cira.colostate.edu/projects/socialscience. "