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.

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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:

• Ease of use by the meteorologist as well as the layman without special training
• A cutting edge, customizable, and "fun" user Interface with colors and skins
• A radar presentation that feels like a real "radar scope" (hence the round design)
• A smaller footprint to allow running at 800x600 screen size and a "Mini View" display
• Significant Storm Alerting and Tracking Tools, including ETA calculation
• An easy to use distance measuring tool to determine how far away storms are
• Support for land based (statute miles) and marine based use (nautical miles)
• Forecasting, Watch/Warning, and National/Regional Radar Tools
• Coverage of the entire USA NEXRAD Radar network
• Program Stability for continuous operation and "always on" alerting applications
• Ability to print and save still and loops of storms of interest for training
• 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
• 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:

Custom Radar 24 bit color basemaps with 3D terrain Support for use with TV Station Doppler Radars as a custom branded promotional tool Lightning strike overlay using third party lightning data Email, Pager, Cellphone, and PDA alerting of Scan Zone Wireless Bitmap (WBMP) support to send radar pictures to newer cell phones Automated customized radar image export for websites Support for mobile operation with GPS Plus other advanced features to come