Alertus & AccuWeather Skyguard®

Initiate and deliver Predictive alerts

A proactive response to lightning is crucial to mitigating death or significant injuries like electrical burns and neurological damage. 

AccuWeather SkyGuard Proactive Lightning Advisories, integrated with the Alertus System, allow organizations to predict when lightning will strike within eight miles of a given location, providing safety managers up to 20 minutes of lead time — critical to keeping people safe.


The AccuWeather Skyguard®
Integration Delivers:

Location-Specific Alerts

  • Gets critical information to your stakeholders

  • Helps mitigate personal harm by eliminating alerting fatigue and complacency from general warnings that cover large areas

  • Site-specific, customized, accurate

Predictive Lightning Advisories

  • Alerts sent with up to 20 minutes of lead time vs. reacting to lightning in real time

  • Location monitoring and on-demand consultation with an experienced AccuWeather meteorologist

  • Switches to Lightning Warning when detected within 6 miles

  • Send all-clear messages 10 to 15 minutes faster on each event

Full integration with All Alertus System Alerting Endpoints

  • Reach everyone across your facility – at their desks, outside, in classrooms/conference rooms, and in loud/highly trafficked areas – via any alerting modality connected to your network.

  • Because Proactive Lightning Advisories notify through your Alertus System, SkyGuard is easy for your emergency response team to use and for your IT team to support.

 
 

Features & Capabilities

Features

  • Pinpoint alerts for specific locations, unlike general public warnings that cover large areas.

  • Proactive and consistent messages for all business verticals, ensuring a common operating picture to provide uniform continuity and weather intelligence.

  • Location monitoring and on-demand consultation with an experienced AccuWeather meteorologist.

  • Additional safeguards with acknowledgments functionality ensure you have received and understand the warning issued.

  • Intuitive and Hassle-Free: Because Proactive Lightning Advisories notify through your Alertus System, SkyGuard is easy for your emergency response team and IT staff to use and support.

  • Customizable: Combine your customized and site-specific information on branch locations, routes, emergency contacts, and more into the SkyGuard system.

Capabilities

  • Comprehensive: Site-specific, customized, accurate warnings to help you protect your employees, students, faculty, visitors, and other stakeholders.

  • Actionable and Consistent: Alerts are tailored to your organization’s emergency response procedures.

  • Easily Understandable: SkyGuard quickly shows you precisely what is happening in your area with maps highlighting your exact location.


Additional Resources

On-demand Webinar: Notify Before Lightning Strikes: The Alertus & AccuWeather SkyGuard Proactive Lightning Advisories Integration

Providing timely, precise lightning notifications is crucial to your organization’s safety.

This on-demand webinar reviews why generating location-specific lightning alerts for your campus or facility is crucial to mitigating death or significant injuries. 

Alertus + AccuWeather Skyguard® Datasheet

When storms are moving quickly or emerge overhead, time is of the essence. AccuWeather SkyGuard’s Proactive Lightning Advisories initiate and deliver instant alerts via the Alertus System.