ESP:LIVESevere weather is your number one opportunity to recruit viewers. Stay one-step ahead of the competition with ESP:LIVE from Weather Central. No matter what the season ESP:LIVE gives your team hyper-local mapping, the most advanced storm tracking algorithims, interactive data display capability and a suite of exclusive tools to give your viewers what they need, when they need it.
ESP:LIVE
X-Vision™
Convective Outlooks
IceVision™, RainVision™ and SnowVision™
EchoPATH™
Rapid Scan TVS
TelePath Algorithms
Build 10 Super Resolution Radar
Velocity scope
HailZONE
Mapping
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X-Vision is the most impressive display of 3D radar on the market
Using advanced algorithms and multiple radar sites, you can show your viewers stormy weather like never before, and keep ahead of the storm by giving your weather team critical analysis tools in an easy to understand format.
Give viewers life-saving information automatically
The National Weather Service alerts the public about potential areas of severe weather every day and now ESP:LIVE is the only system on the market to automatically display that data for your viewers. You can even interactively click on the threat areas to let your viewers know exactly what might be coming their way.
Show your viewers where the worst weather is now
Pinpoint potential flooding and travel problems for your viewers by displaying exclusive RainVision, SnowVision and IceVision data. Using the most advanced algorithms in the world, you can show your viewers historic rain, snow and ice totals so they know exactly where the worst weather is.
Keep your viewers ahead of the storm
Show your viewers how the radar will look in the future with EchoPATH data. Advanced scientific physics help accurately show where storms will be moving during the next two hours.
Be first on-air in your market with tornado information
This data doesn't wait for the radar's whole volume scan to complete. It gives you critical information as the data comes in which means you can have a five minute advantage over your competition.
Industry leading science gives you a promotable advantage
Weather Central has partnered with Weather Decisions Technologies of Norman, OK, to offer you the most advanced storm-tracking algorithms in the world. The algorithms were created through joint development with the National Severe Storms Laboratory and include FunnelPATH™ for the identification and tracking of tornadoes including exclusive Probability of Tornado data; MesoPATH™ for the identification and tracking of mesocyclones, the precursors to tornadoes; and CellPATH™ including the exclusive Probability of Severe Weather data. This industry-leading science turns your weather team members into the experts and gives you a promotable advantage your viewers will come back for again and again.
Severe weather at the neighborhood level
Weather Central is leading the way by offering you "high-definition" Level Two NexRad data. The Build 10 super-resolution data will allow your weather team to pinpoint severe weather threats to the city block level with 1/4 kilometer data and give your viewers breathtaking visual displays.
Show viewers the inside of the storm
The exclusive Velocity Scope tool allows your storm team to punch into the heart of a storm to give your viewers an unprecedented look at attributes such as rotating winds or hourly rainfall estimates.
Tell viewers when they should move their cars to avoid hail damage
Exclusive HailZONE data shows which viewers are in the path of the hail swath. Go one step further and interactively touch the area to show the expected size of the hail.
Give your viewers an HD experience during severe weather
Take them to street-level with jaw-dropping visuals that let you tell the weather story like never before. Custom color and resolution matching means you can zoom from point to point and always give your viewers the absolute best quality.
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