Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, June 1st, 2006
In a 1996 paper in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, our lead author introduced "severeweather phobia" as a term, defining this condition as "an intense, debilitating, unreasonable fear of severe weather." The term "severe weather" was defined as severe thunderstorms or tornadoes.
The exploratory study in 1996 of severe-weather phobia based its findings on interviews with 81 people who described themselves as severe-weather phobies. Sixty-five of the 81 subjects (80%) indicated that the onset of their phobia occurred as a result of a previous encounter with a severe storm (using the Nationa...
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