CRITICAL WEATHER INTELLIGENCE

Real-time and historical weather information system, comprising computer hardware and software therefor, for the access, distribution, and graphical display of radar, lightning, thunderstorms, wind velocity, wind shear, precipitation, wind rotation, and other weather data, and for real-time identification of storm direction, and for coupling multiple databases, and for the sending and receiving of information via a global computer network; Doppler radar systems comprised of a tower, radar, pedestal, radar dish, radome, receiver and transmitter for the identification and location of weather targets and other objects, and computer hardware and software for the control and operations of radar systems; weather tracking and display system comprising computer hardware and software providing means to directly manipulate weather data and display enhancement and tracking; weather information apparatus comprised of computer hardware and software, which provides enhanced ability to monitor and track significant weather data as received from external sources; weather warning system, namely, computer hardware and software which automatically receives, interprets, and transforms weather warnings and weather watches issued by governmental agencies and transmits them in textual form, and in graphical form, with graphical mapping information; computer software for collecting, analyzing, and displaying real-time and historical weather information; electronic zoom-in software for computer-based radar apparatus that provides the capability to visually zoom-in and pinpoint roads and intersections as displayed on a viewing screen of the computer-based radar apparatus in conjunction with graphically displayed weather-related information; computer software for processing weather data and projecting storm locations, movement, speeds, characteristics and estimated time of arrival for storms; computer software for predicting and graphically displaying the movement of weather phenomenon over time; Doppler radar, computer hardware and computer software for use with Doppler radar that processes and displays data obtained from radar; computer hardware and software for identifying the location of severe weather and for communicating information to people in the vicinity of said severe weather; computer hardware and software for gathering, distributing, and displaying wind rotation, wind shear, and other weather data for use in a real-time and historical weather information system; computer software used to create simulations of wind rotation and wind shear for use in the weather information and meteorological industry; computer hardware and software packaged as a unit which allows for the continuous tracking of the location of a mobile vehicle, allows for the transmission of weather-related information to the mobile vehicle, and allows for the transmission of weather-related information from the mobile vehicle to a home base; computer hardware and software for sending and displaying radar information via a global computer network

Providing real-time and historical weather information to stationary and mobile users, via satellite, radio, and cellular phone transmitters and via local and global computers; providing weather-related data and information and weather-related images for purposes of weather reporting through a distribution network; providing real-time and historical weather information, namely, providing weather information that features the graphical display of radar, lightning, thunderstorms, wind velocity, wind shear, wind rotation, precipitation, storm location, storm tracking, and other weather phenomenon and weather data; providing weather information services; providing real-time and historical weather information distributed via short message service text messaging, emails, and telephone messaging, to stationary and mobile users, via telephone land line communication, cellular phone transmitters and receivers, and via local and global computers