"Our clients depend on us to provide high quality forecasting and advanced notification of severe weather. We use the Alert Perimeters feature in Weather Defender to help keep our forecasters attuned to weather hazards which may affect our clients."
Todd Frostad
President/COO
WeatherNation LLC
Excelsior, Minnesota
"My son is a cop and was on patrol one night when a severe thunderstorm approached our community. I used Weather Defender to track the movement of the storm and communicated with my son to watch out because the storm was about to hit his location. He told me later that within 5 minutes of my call a storm hit so hard that it almost flipped the squad car over. I have used Weather Defender on many other occasions to keep tabs on severe weather and help protect people I know and care about."
Jack Harris
(Retired Federal Officer)
Easthampton, Massachusetts
Cody writes to tell us how Weather Defender is being used at SLEMCO, an energy utility in Louisiana that serves over 90,000 residents:
"Weather Defender has been of a great assistance to our dispatch staff by making our company aware of pending weather threats to our electrical grid.
Cody Hulin
Southwest Louisiana Electric
Membership Corporation (SLEMCO)"
Weather Defender is shown here running on a large-screen plasma display in SLEMCO's
"Mission Control" room.
"I’m on my 4th weather-related business in the Twin Cities, and over the years I’ve become dependent on smart developers and a handful of creative, innovative hardware and software vendors that keep us on the leading edge of meteorology. One of our clients is a wind farm in North Dakota, where the weather can change in the blink of an eye and the threat of severe weather is ever-present. My latest company, WeatherNation, has come to rely on Weather Defender to keep our clients up-to-the-second, and ahead of the storm. Any tool that increases the safety factor for weather-sensitive companies is going to be well-received in the marketplace. There’s nothing like Weather Defender; we’ve been very pleased with the service. It has some very powerful functionality and can be adapted for any business that puts employee safety first.”
Paul Douglas
Founder & CEO
WeatherNation LLC
Excelsior, Minnesota
"We host quality summer programming that brings in thousands of children each summer. But even the best programming won't bring kids to our camp if their parents are concerned about safety. That's why we use Weather Defender to be alerted to severe weather near our camps, and we promote this fact to parents so they know that while their children are with us, they'll be safe."
Casey Fuerst
Director of Marketing & Communications
Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries
Ashland, Nebraska
"At Walter G Anderson, we take employee safety very seriously. We use Weather Defender to monitor weather in our area so that we can be the first to know when severe weather threatens our people."
Nhia Moua
I/T Specialist
Walter G. Anderson, Inc.
Hamel, Minnesota
"As a summer camp that happens to be located in Tornado Alley, we take threatening weather very seriously. We trust Weather Defender to help protect our staff and the 1,500 kids we host each summer from severe weather. Whenever lightning or tornadic storms are nearby, we receive weather alerts directly on our cell phones so we always know what is coming and when it's time to take action."
David C. Coker
Executive Director
Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries
Ashland, Nebraska
www.nlom.org
"I have to say thanks to Weather Defender.
During my 3 day weekend, I was camping and had my laptop running with Weather Defender running. I was alerted to the coming weather, and I was able to evacuate my family from the camp grounds with time to spare, before the storms reached us in eastern Iowa.
Thanks Again,
Ben Godwin"
In reference to SWIFT WX, an earlier version of Weather Defender