Home  /  Services  /  WeatherBlast

WeatherBlast

Read the WeatherBlast press release.

View the WeatherBlast demonstration webinar.

Every year, severe weather causes untold billions of dollars worth of damage – a figure the Pew Center on Global Climate Change predicts will only continue to rise as global warming continues.

Retailers are particularly vulnerable to sudden, unpredictable weather such as floods, hailstorms, high winds and tornadoes. Shopping carts can damage vehicles. Signs and outdoor merchandise become projectiles. Plate glass windows shatter. Blindsided by a sudden storm, hundreds or thousands of customers or employees could possibly be injured or worse.

WeatherBlast from Send Word Now provides precision targeted early warning notifications, allowing store managers to initiate severe weather protocols, to guide customers to safe locations, and to secure outdoor displays, merchandise, and assets.

WeatherBlast Alerts Are:

• Powered by WeatherBug™ – with more than 8,500 weather stations providing fine-grained data targeted with more precision than zip codes – precise within 5 square miles.
  
• Customizable and targeted – so recipients can choose the kinds of alerts they need and receive only those that are relevant. Alerts can be pre-loaded with call to action instructions such as: “Stay inside,” “Secure outdoor signage and displays,” or even “Contact the Emergency Operations Center immediately.“
  
• Triggered automatically – no human action or intervention required. As the severe weather events occur alerts are delivered automatically.
  
• Multimodal – receive both voice and text alerts via landlines, cell phones, pagers, PDA’s, email and BlackBerry PIN.

Read the WeatherBlast Case Study for information about how Wal-Mart used WeatherBlast to protect its customers and employees when a tornado hit one of their stores.

Fill out a short contact form to speak to a WeatherBlast expert.