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Scale for severe weather risk

  • US 7,191,064 B1
  • Filed: 11/08/2004
  • Issued: 03/13/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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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.

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