Patent ID: 7191064
Filing Date: 2007-03-13
Classification: G01W

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for conveying a risk and degree of severe weather at a location, the method comprising: (a) receiving over a communications network location information from a requestor indicating the requestor's present location at a present time; (b) converting the location information into geographic coordinates; (c) identifying present and historical natural phenomenological data associated with an area around the location; (d) calculating natural phenomenological information associated with the area around the location; (e) forecasting a risk of severe weather associated with the location for a specific time period that includes at least the present time; (f) calculating a degree of severity level of the risk of severe weather for the location; (g) generating a report containing the risk forecast and the calculated severity level for the coordinates; and (h) communicating the report to the requestor via the communications network or a second communications network.