September 5, 2013
Sunday morning was no time to wait for an official warning! Businesses, festivals, recreation facilities, and utilities often suffer damage by weather that does not meet official severe weather thresholds. Sunday morning (Sept. 1), several specific “nowcasts” gave our clients great lead-time. This is what Weather or Not does better than anybody else! Here’s an example of how that worked.
Weather or Not meteorologists called a city public works department, warning them to prepare for damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph, almost 30 minutes before an official severe thunderstorm warning was issued. The image below shows the damaging wind gusts moving through the area.
Sure enough, their public works crews were picking up debris so later that morning the local utility could get in and make repairs.
As strong storms moved farther south, Weather or Not meteorologists called another city at 6:15am telling them to expect widespread rain and thunderstorms with wind gusts of 30-50 mph to arrive at their festival site around 7:15am. This call occurred over an hour before an official weather statement was issued. The image below shows 30-50 mph wind gusts. We were able to give our clients the greatest lead-times possible, proving very helpful on a holiday weekend.
If accuracy and early warning matter to your operation, contact sara@weatherornot.com today and we will create a weather plan together!
We appreciated the personal touch of knowing if we should host or cancel a holiday dinner during early December 2013. It was a Sunday evening and a storm rolled in. Our thanks to Sara Croke and her staff of professional meteorologists for being there when we needed them.
Tammy Potts
Basehor Community Library Trustee
Basehor, Ks.