About StormPredator
About the Program:

StormPredator is the result of years
of experience in the weather graphics business. The
founder of the company, Anthony Watts, is a 25 year
broadcast meteorology veteran and was responsible for
the first ever PC based weather graphics display system
for broadcast television in 1983. Since then, hundreds of
TV stations have used TV weather display equipment he
designed to show weather on the nightly news. Companies
such as WSI and
Accu-Weather® have relied upon systems
designed right here.
StormPredator is a
result of that experience.
See the
DETAILS section of our website to learn all
about it!
StormPredator is now a second generation program.
The first generation program,
DesktopDoppler, was discontinued in May 2003
because it had reached the end of its ability to
be improved. Originally written in Visual Basic 6,
it was unable to grow to meet the needs of our
customers and the features they requested.
StormPredator, written in Microsoft Visual C++ is
far more robust and feature rich, plus has our
EXCLUSIVE STORM TRACKER TOOL (seen at left) with advanced
mathematical calculation features for measuring
distance, tracking storms, prediction of storm
motion, and calculating the Estimated Time of
Arrival (ETA) of a storm.
The StormPredator program was designed to meet several
goals:
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Ease of use by the meteorologist as well as the layman
without special training
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A cutting edge, customizable, and "fun" user Interface
with colors and skins
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A radar presentation that feels like a real "radar
scope" (hence the round design)
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A smaller footprint to allow running at 800x600 screen
size and a "Mini View" display
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Significant Storm Alerting and Tracking Tools, including
ETA calculation
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An easy to use distance measuring tool to determine how
far away storms are
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Support for land based (statute miles) and marine based
use (nautical miles)
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Forecasting, Watch/Warning, and National/Regional Radar
Tools
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Coverage of the entire USA NEXRAD Radar network
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Program Stability for continuous operation and "always
on" alerting applications
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Ability to print and save still and loops of storms of
interest for training
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Database driven for flexibility for future changes in
the National Weather Service to support new radars,
features, and products- one database file defines all
the program parameters
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Flexible group licensing to allow this program to be
used inexpensively by educators, civil defense, storm
spotters, and other civic related groups
And through the use of Optional Add-on Features and Data:
About the developers
StormPredator was conceptually developed by
Meteorologist Anthony Watts, President of IntelliWeather,
and his staff, John Webb, Graphic artist who
designed the skins and buttons, and Darryl House,
lead programmer who wrote the heavy duty C++ code.
StormPredator is distributed by
IntelliWeather and our
WeatherShop
online weather store.
We are also a leader in supplying Internet Weather
Content via our IntelliWeather Service. We supply
dozens of TV stations in the US with custom
branded weather bulletins, imagery, and forecast
products. See
www.intelliweather.com for details.

 
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