On May 28, 2019, a destructive EF4 tornado struck north-eastern Kansas, resulting in severe damage in Leavenworth County and surrounding areas. The tornado travelled 31.8 miles in 55 minutes and had a maximum width of one mile. There were 18 injuries but no fatalities. The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) funded a quick response field study, referred to here as Wave 1, to document post-tornado damage to building structures along the tornado path. The Wave 1 survey documented initial building damage, aerial imagery of the tornado path and provides an essential baseline for subsequent impact and recovery studies. A second and third wave of data collection were funded by PI Sutley’s fellowship funding from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program, and were executed six months and twelve months after the tornado, respectively. The Wave 2 and 3 teams consisted of structural engineering professors and students, behavioral economics professor and students, and public administration and urban planning students from the University of Kansas. Goals for Wave 2 and Wave 3 were to: (1) document risk perception, sheltering behavior, impact, and recovery experience of households during and since the May 2019 tornado, and (2) document the repair progress for homes along the tornado path six and twelve months after a major tornado in rural Kansas. This project achieves collected data from Waves 1, 2, and 3. This collection also archives survey instruments and Institutional Review Board protocol approved by the University of Kansas IRB office for Waves 2 and 3.
Sutley, E., Z. Chen, J. LI, H. Chao, L. Daniel, J. Clements, P. Sharma, S. Taher, J. Kim, R. Lequesne, W. Kirkham, D. Roueche (2021). "Door-to-Door Damage Assessment Survey: Wave 1", in StEER - 28 MAY 2019 LINWOOD, KS EF4 TORNADO: FIELD ASSESSMENT STRUCTURAL TEAM 1 (FAST-1). DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-a06x-f358
This mission contains a quick response field study, referred to here as Wave 1, to document post-tornado damage to building structures along the tornado path. The Wave 1 survey documented initial building damage, aerial imagery of the tornado path and provides an essential baseline for subsequent impact and recovery studies. 271 building structures were assessed for physical damage caused by tornado hazards using the StEER structural wind damage rating survey.
Sutley, E., D. Reed, R. Lequesne, W. Kirkham, J. LI, J. Kim, B. Gelino, S. Enderami, M. Dumler, S. Taher, A. Bhatta, K. Vazquez, L. Caraway-Short (2021). "Six-month Post-tornado Repair Progress: Wave 2", in StEER - 28 MAY 2019 LINWOOD, KS EF4 TORNADO: FIELD ASSESSMENT STRUCTURAL TEAM 1 (FAST-1). DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-an2v-2c39
This mission achieved the human subject research protocols, data collection instruments, and data for the physical repair progress for homes along the tornado path six months after the 2019 EF4 Linwood, Kansas tornado. 144 residential buildings were assessed in Wave 2.
Research Planning Collection | IRB Survey Protocol: Wave 2
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This collection archives the Institutional Review Board protocol approved by the University of Kansas IRB office for Wave 2 for the 2019 EF4 Linwood, Kansas Tornado related household impact and recovery survey.
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Research Planning Collection | Survey Instrument: Wave 2
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This collection archives the Survey Instrument for Wave 2 for the 2019 EF4 Linwood, Kansas Tornado related household impact and recovery survey. In Wave 2, human subjects’ data were collected through in-person questionnaires with a few mailed questionnaires to homes with no trespassing signs on the property; repair progress was assessed via in-person observation for those homes that were accessible by the team.
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Engineering/Geosciences Collection | Household Impact and Recovery Data: Wave 2
This collection contains Wave 2 data. Wave 2 data were collected in two parts. The survey team revisited 201 residential buildings surveyed in Wave 1 to take photographs of repair progress as evident from the building exterior. If a structure was recorded as ‘not damaged’ then it was not revisited in Wave 2a. Additional 190 samples were added during Wave 2a. In addition to photographs, a short, novel survey in Fulcrum was used to document detailed information on component repair states, as well as an apparent occupancy status of the housing unit. In total 144 residential buildings were assessed for repair progress in Wave 2a; 58 were recorded as being fully repaired, 27 were recorded as having visible damage but no signs of on-going repairs, and 28 structures were recorded as having ‘repairs in-progress’.
Sutley, E., R. Lequesne, B. Gelino, D. Reed, N. Phan, M. Smith, M. Dumler, A. Bhatta, S. Enderami, A. Snay (2021). "May 28, 2019 EF4 Linwood Tornado: Six-Month Post-Tornado Recovery Report", in StEER - 28 MAY 2019 LINWOOD, KS EF4 TORNADO: FIELD ASSESSMENT STRUCTURAL TEAM 1 (FAST-1). DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-qbsx-ma75
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2021-11-02
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10.17603/ds2-qbsx-ma75
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An EF4 tornado occurred in northeastern Kansas on May 28, 2019 causing considerable damage in Leavenworth County. Damage mostly consisted of single-family residential structures, and was assessed by a team of researchers led by the University of Kansas (KU) three days after the tornado. This report presents a follow-up study undertaken six months after the tornado to document building-level data on repair progress and household-level data on building code perceptions, risk perceptions, recovery progress, and socio-demographics.
Sutley, E., M. Dumler, R. Mazumder, R. Lequesne, J. LI, W. Kirkham, D. Reed, J. Kim, T. Thompson (2021). "One-year Post-tornado Repair Progress: Wave 3", in StEER - 28 MAY 2019 LINWOOD, KS EF4 TORNADO: FIELD ASSESSMENT STRUCTURAL TEAM 1 (FAST-1). DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-5ysj-a554
This mission achieved the human subject research protocols, data collection instruments, and data for the physical repair progress for homes along the tornado path twelve months after the 2019 EF4 Linwood, Kansas tornado. 144 residential buildings were assessed in Wave 2. Only and all of the 27 unrepaired homes and 28 homes with repairs in progress recorded in Wave 2a were assessed in Wave 3 for continued repair progress.
Research Planning Collection | IRB Survey Protocol: Wave 3
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This collection archives the Institutional Review Board protocol approved by the University of Kansas IRB office for Wave 3 for the 2019 EF4 Linwood, Kansas Tornado related household impact and recovery survey.
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Research Planning Collection | Survey Instrument: Wave 3
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This collection archives the Survey Instrument for Wave 3 for the 2019 EF4 Linwood, Kansas Tornado related household impact and recovery survey. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wave 3 study was conducted by mailing postcards to Wave 2 respondents inviting them to participate in a short online survey. The 12-month repair progress of the homes was evaluated using a drive-by assessment where the repair progress was observed from the road.
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Engineering/Geosciences Collection | Household Impact and Recovery Data: Wave 3
This collection contains Wave 3 survey data. Wave 3 was executed in two parts. The first part executed drive-by assessment of visual repair progress. Only and all of the 27 unrepaired homes and 28 homes with repairs in progress recorded in Wave 2a were assessed in Wave 3 for continued repair progress. Of the 55 homes evaluated for repair progress in Wave 3, 22 were recorded as repairs in progress or still not yet started. The other 23 homes were recorded as fully repaired. Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, data collection efforts shifted to virtual surveys on recovery progress.
Document Collection | Data Report on Household Impact and Recovery Assessment: A longitudinal Investigation after the 2019 EF4 Linwood, Kansas Tornado
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Mazumder, R., E. Sutley, M. Dumler (2021). "Data Report on Household Impact and Recovery Assessment: A longitudinal Investigation after the 2019 EF4 Linwood, Kansas Tornado", in StEER - 28 MAY 2019 LINWOOD, KS EF4 TORNADO: FIELD ASSESSMENT STRUCTURAL TEAM 1 (FAST-1). DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-87ne-d742
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2021-11-02
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10.17603/ds2-87ne-d742
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This report describes the data collection process, and the survey data collected. The data in this publication comes from the second and third waves of data collection after the sixth month and one-year mark of the tornado, respectively. The data consists of the physical structure repair progress photographs and the household repair survey.
