FLOOD00391

• County: Larimer
• Community: Fort Collins
• Title: What Have We Learned Since the Big Thompson Flood July 31, 1976
• Date: 7/10/1996
• Prepared For: Big Thompson Symposium
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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Table 2: Sources of weather information are listed in rows 4-8 of column 1. The
percentages that use that source are listed for all respondents (column 2) and for
subgroups based on spec/fied weather events (columns 3-6). The number of respondents
for each group is given in row 2.

Data Sources all tornado hurricane hlizzard fire
sample size S2 28 12 22 22
NWS 92% 96% 100% 86% 100%
Private Co. 37% 39% 58% 36% 27%
Wx Channel 65% 71% 83% 68% 59%
Other TV 60% 68% 75% 59% 59%
Instruments 21% 21% 33% 18% 27%

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