SGER: Study of Warning and Response to Tornadoes

灾难研究中心将对2003年5月5日发生在密苏里州和俄克拉何马州的一系列龙卷风的应急反应进行初步研究，并进行一次快速反应实地侦察。研究的重点将是预警、系统、应急管理和医院系统对风暴的响应，以及项目影响对城市减轻风暴影响能力的影响。将利用人种学观察和对医院主要人员、参与减灾的城市行政人员和应急管理社区（警察、消防、应急管理机构）的非正式访谈，以及收集有关灾害的文件和当地大众媒体报道，来审查医院应急行动计划的运作情况。由于项目影响及其有效性而建立的机构化、应急模式和社区缓解特征。诸如此类的研究对于获取宝贵的易变质数据非常重要，特别是从存在历史灾害数据的地区获取的数据，因为这些数据可用于评估以前关于预警系统、医院、应急管理界的反应以及联邦应急管理局项目影响的有效性的调查结果。对社会的影响是广泛的，因为它们可能有助于改善我们处理灾害的行动和程序。

The Disaster Research Center will carry out a quick-response field reconnaissance trip for a preliminary study of the emergency response to the May 5, 2003 series of tornadoes in Missouri and Oklahoma. The focus of the study will be the warning, system, the response of the emergency management and hospital systems to the storms, and the effects of Project Impact on the ability of cities to mitigate the effects of the storms. Ethnographic observation and informal interviews with key personnel in the hospitals, the city administrators involved with the mitigation, and the emergency management communities (police, fire, emergency management agency), as well as the collection of documents and local mass media accounts of the disasters will be used to examine the functioning of the hospital's emergency operations plan, its institutionalization and emergent response patterns and community mitigation features that were instituted as a result of Project Impact and their effectiveness.Research such as this is important to capture valuable perishable data, especially from an area for which historical disaster data exists, because it can be used to evaluate previous findings on warning systems, hospitals, the responses of the emergency management communities, and the effectiveness of FEMA's Project Impact. The impacts to society are broad in so far as they might serve to improve our operations and procedures for dealing with disasters.