SkyGuard®
Weather Risk Management Solution
SkyGuard® is credited with saving dozens of lives on February 5, 2008 during the worst tornado outbreak in 20 years.
SkyGuard provides proactive weather risk management that allows your organization to improve safety, protect property and reduce costs associated with interruptions in your operations, customer service and supply chain. When you have SkyGuard, you don't add an expense item to your budget. You'll actually save your organization money.
Unlike the National Weather Service, which issues warnings covering large areas, SkyGuard issues warnings only when specific locations are at risk, saving money by keeping facilities running. Customizable warnings based on an organization's criteria can include: tornado, high wind, lightning, flash flooding, hail, extreme temperature, rain, and hurricane.
SkyGuard warnings will allow your operation to...
Reduce Costs and Avoid Unnecessary Interruptions
Receive fewer false alarms when a tornado is expected to be in your county, but will not affect your facility.
Make the Right Decision in Mission-Critical Situations
Receive customized, site-specific storm warnings that are based on the criteria you determine are most useful to your operation, at the time you need it the most.
Gain Further Protection and Added Security
Choose the most effective delivery method(s) for your warnings and warning verifications.
Have Peace of Mind
Our expert meteorologists monitor your location on a continuous basis and are available 24x7 for unlimited consultation.
Our clients report lives saved plus an ROI (return on investment) up to 35:1 in operational savings.
An extended lightning warning, sent to a client for one of their locations, represented by the black box. The warnings are sent to clients based upon their specifications for the area warned, the raidus, and the amount of lead time (advance warning) they receive. When clients enhance their SkyGuard service with SmartRAD, they are able to view cloud-to-ground lightning strikes (the white dots) in real time.
This image depicts how SmartRAD® software is utilized to immediately receive warnings issued by our expert meteorologists.
SmartRAD accurately displays real time lightning strikes (white dots) over ICG mines 45 minutes after receiving warning.
View this news story...TV News Report. How Railroads Benefit from SkyGuard®
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Customer Testimonials
Losing $100,000 every minute that one of our facilities is shut down due to a tornado can be costly. When the government issues a warning for a region or county it is not always pertinent that we shut down. [You] assess our situation specifically and notifies us when to shutdown.
Coupled with our severe weather operating processes, WeatherData's alerts and warnings saved a major derailment and greater damage here!
