The team at StormQuant is devastated by the tragedy that occurred last Friday in Kerr County and other parts of Texas.  I know we all agree that any preventable loss of life is tragic.

I want to share with each of you an update about StormQuant’s advanced radar and weather detection technology which—when implemented—helps alert communities earlier to catastrophic events and helps prevent future loss of life. StormQuant’s radar and software platform in Florida is widely deployed, assisting their EOC’s with hyper-local, actionable weather data.

The Problem

Recent tragedies, such as the Kerr County flash floods where death tolls have surpassed 100, have exposed systemic weaknesses in the U.S. weather alerting infrastructure:

• Lack of real-time, hyper-local radar coverage leaves valleys and remote regions blind to low-level precipitation.
• NEXRAD limitations, including radar beam overshoot and distance from radar (100+ km), fail to detect extreme rainfall at lower elevations like in Kerr County.
• No localized, user-defined alerts leaving communities to rely entirely on generic NWS alerts, which are often not relevant at the specific local level.
• Generic NWS warnings fail to reflect specific flood triggers that vary by location: terrain, soil, infrastructure, and recent conditions.
• A lack of integration between radar data, no localized alert thresholds, and outdated protocols slow response times and put lives at risk.

Current reporting does not reflect StormQuant’s advances in technology. As stated by Nazaneen Ghaffar from the New York Times Weather Team in Why Forecasting Thunderstorms Is Still So Hard:

“Even with advances in technology, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where and when some of the most severe weather will occur until just before it happens” …Until now!

The StormQuant Solution

StormQuant delivers a next-generation radar and patented software platform designed for both local and national-scale operations.

User-Defined Localized Critical Alerts:

• StormQuant’s platform allows local EOC managers to set their own alert thresholds specific to their region.
• StormQuant allows local EOCs to see storms developing and intensifying before they reach the community—including more accurate rainfall accumulation tracking.
• Once alerts are triggered they are automatically sent to the local EOC manager. Now alerts can be dispatched much earlier with greater accuracy by your local EOC directly to local residents, schools, power substations, airports, etc.
• Early and accurate alerting at the local level is critical as weather is constantly changing.

From inception, StormQuant’s scalable platform was engineered to continuously evolve, avoiding the systemic failures that plague today’s legacy systems. The current national system is not designed for localized weather events where most of these disasters occur.

With StormQuant, you no longer have to rely on outdated systems which reside and are managed far from your local community.

Please view this short video showcasing our latest software advances in action:

We greatly appreciate the opportunity to share with each of you the life-saving advantages the StormQuant platform offers your communities.