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Know Where Damaging Storms Actually Struck.
Observed hail swaths. Estimated hail sizes. Damaging wind footprints. Tornado tracks. Historical catastrophe intelligence.
Severe convective storms can produce billions of dollars in property damage, disrupt critical infrastructure, and create significant challenges for insurers, businesses, and communities.
Yet conventional severe weather warnings often describe broad geographic areas where damaging conditions may occur—not necessarily where hail, destructive winds, or tornadoes actually struck.
DisasterAWARE delivers detailed severe convective storm intelligence that connects authoritative warnings with observed and estimated hazard footprints, intensity information, and enriched historical catastrophe records.
From radar-derived hail swaths and estimated hail sizes to damaging wind footprints, tornado tracks, and derechos, our intelligence helps technology providers better understand where severe storms occurred, how intense conditions were, and which properties or operations may have been affected.
Designed for insurance, reinsurance, catastrophe analytics, risk intelligence, and enterprise technology platforms, DisasterAWARE provides supported intelligence through real-time APIs, webhooks, historical data delivery, geospatial services, and AI-native integrations.
Go beyond where storms were forecast. Understand where damaging conditions occurred.
Detailed Intelligence Across Hail, Damaging Winds & Tornadoes.
Observed Hail Intelligence — Sizes, Swaths & Geographic Severity
Hail can cause extensive property damage, yet the actual geographic footprint and severity of a hailstorm can differ significantly from the original warning area.
DisasterAWARE combines radar-derived hail intelligence, authoritative storm reports, and supporting observations to characterize where hail occurred and its estimated severity.
Available intelligence includes:
Our hail intelligence helps technology partners move beyond warning polygons and isolated storm reports toward a more geographically detailed view of potential hail exposure.
- •Hail Swaths: Geographic footprints identifying areas of radar-indicated hail activity.
- •Estimated Hail Sizes: Available radar-derived hail-size estimates that help characterize storm intensity.
- •Geographic Severity: Spatial information showing how estimated hail intensity varies across affected areas.
- •Storm Reports: Available authoritative hail reports and supporting observations.
- •Event Timing & Location: Geographic and temporal information associated with hail activity.
- •Historical Hail Records: Enriched historical hail swaths, observations, and severity information.
Featured Capability: Near-Real-Time Hail Intelligence
DisasterAWARE's hail intelligence API provides access to supported near-real-time hail information, including geographic swaths and estimated hail sizes.
Technology partners can integrate these datasets into property monitoring, catastrophe analytics, claims triage, and other applications.
*Radar-derived hail sizes are estimates of hail conditions and do not confirm the size of hail that reached the ground at every location.*
Damaging Wind Intelligence — Observations, Footprints & Derechos
Severe convective storms can produce damaging straight-line winds, intense gusts, and widespread wind events that affect large geographic areas.
DisasterAWARE combines available wind observations, authoritative severe weather reports, and geographic wind intelligence to help characterize where damaging wind conditions occurred.
Available intelligence includes:
- •Damaging Wind Footprints: Geographic representations of areas affected or potentially affected by severe wind conditions.
- •Wind Speed Information: Available measured or estimated wind speeds and gusts.
- •Severe Wind Reports: Authoritative observations and reports of damaging wind activity.
- •Geographic Severity: Available intensity information describing severe wind conditions across affected areas.
- •Derechos: Information about organized, widespread damaging wind events.
- •Historical Wind Intelligence: Enriched records of past severe wind events and available geographic evidence.
Featured Capability: Near-Real-Time Severe Wind Intelligence
DisasterAWARE's severe wind intelligence API provides access to supported near-real-time damaging wind information and geographic footprints.
These datasets help technology partners identify areas that may have experienced damaging wind conditions and support more targeted geographic risk assessment.
*Wind footprints may be based on observations, reports, radar-derived information, or other supported estimation methods. They do not establish that every structure within a footprint experienced damage.*
Tornado Intelligence — Tracks, Damage Paths & Intensity
Tornadoes can produce highly concentrated damage along narrow geographic paths, making detailed location and intensity information especially valuable.
DisasterAWARE combines authoritative tornado reports, damage surveys, geographic tracks, and historical records to provide a more complete understanding of tornado activity.
Available intelligence includes:
Tornado tracks and damage paths can provide more geographically specific evidence than broad warning areas.
This intelligence supports catastrophe analytics, property exposure analysis, post-event investigation, and historical event validation.
*Preliminary tornado reports and post-event surveyed tracks may differ. Surveyed damage paths are updated as authoritative information becomes available.*
- •Tornado Warnings: Geographic warning areas identifying potential tornado threats.
- •Reported Tornadoes: Authoritative reports of observed or confirmed tornado activity.
- •Tornado Tracks: Available geographic paths describing tornado movement.
- •Damage Survey Information: Geographic and descriptive information from supported post-event damage assessments.
- •Intensity Classification: Available Enhanced Fujita (EF) ratings and supporting event information.
- •Historical Tornado Records: Enriched tornado paths, reported events, and available damage information.
Historical Storm Intelligence, Exposure & Associated Impacts
Understanding past severe convective storms helps organizations evaluate geographic hazard activity, investigate historical events, and analyze catastrophe exposure.
DisasterAWARE's historical catastrophe database includes enriched severe convective storm records incorporating available hail swaths, tornado tracks, damaging wind observations, geographic footprints, and severity information.
These records can support:
Historical Hail Analysis
Explore past hail swaths, estimated hail sizes, and geographic storm information.
Historical Tornado Analysis
Review tornado tracks, reported paths, intensity information, and available damage survey evidence.
Historical Wind Analysis
Evaluate past damaging wind observations, reports, derechos, and available geographic footprints.
Property & Portfolio Exposure
Combine historical or current storm footprints with customer-supplied property locations to identify potential past exposure.
Associated Impacts
Connect available reports of property damage, casualties, infrastructure disruption, and other consequences with significant severe storm events.
Expanding Downstream Impact Intelligence
DisasterAWARE is expanding its connected repository of event-associated impacts, including insured losses, damaged buildings, utility outages, and operational disruptions.
This evolving foundation is intended to support more sophisticated catastrophe analysis and future AI-powered decision intelligence.
Why Disasteraware Is Different
More Than Severe Weather Alerts. Geographic Evidence of Damaging Storms.
Observed Hail Swaths & Estimated Sizes
Understand where radar-indicated hail activity occurred and how estimated hail intensity varied geographically.
Near-Real-Time Damaging Wind Footprints
Access supported severe wind intelligence to help identify areas that may have experienced damaging conditions.
Tornado Tracks & Damage Surveys
Move beyond warning polygons with available tornado paths, intensity classifications, and authoritative post-event evidence.
Derechos & Widespread Storm Intelligence
Incorporate available information about extensive damaging wind events and associated geographic conditions.
Enriched Historical Catastrophe Records
Connect current severe storm intelligence with historical hail, tornado, and wind datasets.
Geographic Exposure & Potential Impact
Evaluate where severe storm footprints intersect insured properties, business facilities, infrastructure, and other important locations.
Enterprise & AI-Native Delivery
Integrate supported severe storm intelligence through APIs, webhooks, historical datasets, geospatial services, and MCP-enabled access.
Featured Intelligence Workflow
From Severe Storm Warning to Observed Footprint & Property Exposure.
DisasterAWARE connects authoritative warnings, radar-derived intelligence, severe weather reports, geographic hazard footprints, and historical records to help technology partners understand damaging storms.
Anticipate — Identify Developing Severe Storm Threats
Access authoritative severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings, forecast information, and available geographic threat areas.
Identify locations where hail, damaging winds, or tornadoes may occur.
Observe — Understand Where Severe Conditions Occurred
Incorporate radar-derived hail information, available wind observations, storm reports, and tornado detections or reports.
Distinguish observed or estimated conditions from forecast warning areas.
Enrich — Characterize Geographic Footprints & Severity
Connect available hail swaths, estimated hail sizes, damaging wind footprints, tornado tracks, intensity information, and supporting observations.
Develop a more geographically detailed understanding of the event.
Assess — Identify Exposure & Available Consequences
Combine hazard footprints with property locations, infrastructure, and other relevant assets.
Associate available damage reports and historical context to support investigation and risk assessment.
Featured Capability: From Hail Warning to Property-Level Exposure Analysis
Know Where the Hail Was Estimated to Fall.
Consider a severe thunderstorm crossing a metropolitan region containing thousands of insured properties.
Before the Storm — Warning Intelligence
An authoritative severe thunderstorm warning identifies a broad geographic area where damaging hail may occur.
During the Storm — Radar-Derived Hail Intelligence
DisasterAWARE incorporates supported hail observations and estimated hail sizes as the storm develops.
After the Storm — Geographic Hail Swath
Available hail swaths help characterize the area where hail activity was indicated and how estimated severity varied geographically.
Exposure Analysis — Identify Potentially Affected Properties
A technology partner overlays the hail footprint with insured property locations to identify buildings that may warrant additional investigation.
Claims & Catastrophe Analysis — Connect Available Evidence
Historical storm information, supporting observations, and available damage reports provide additional context.
The result: More geographically precise evidence of potential hail exposure—not simply whether a property was located inside a severe thunderstorm warning.
Built On Authoritative Storm Observations & Applied Science
Radar Intelligence. Severe Weather Reports. Damage Surveys. Historical Evidence.
DisasterAWARE technology is rooted in decades of applied science and disaster management expertise developed through the Pacific Disaster Center.
Our severe convective storm intelligence combines authoritative meteorological warnings, radar-derived observations, severe storm reports, damage assessments, and historical catastrophe information.
NOAA Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor System (MRMS)
Radar-derived products support hail intelligence, including estimated hail sizes and geographic areas of potential hail activity.
NOAA Storm Prediction Center (SPC)
SPC information contributes severe weather reports, storm-related observations, and historical severe convective storm context.
National Weather Service (NWS)
NWS warnings, Local Storm Reports, and available damage surveys provide authoritative information about hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes.
NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit
Supported damage survey information helps characterize tornado paths, geographic damage evidence, and available intensity classifications.
NOAA Storm Events Database
Historical severe weather event records provide additional context about past hail, wind, tornado, and other significant storm activity.
Geographic Exposure & Impact Intelligence
Available property, population, infrastructure, and impact datasets help connect severe storm footprints with potentially exposed locations and reported consequences.
Nine Ways Disasteraware Supports Enterprise Workflows
Turn Severe Storm Intelligence into More Valuable Customer Applications.
Insurance Claims Triage
Use observed or estimated hail swaths, damaging wind footprints, and tornado tracks to identify insured properties that may warrant post-event investigation.
Reinsurance & Catastrophe Analytics
Enrich catastrophe event analysis with geographic storm footprints, severity information, historical records, and available associated impacts.
Property Underwriting & Portfolio Risk
Evaluate historical hail, tornado, and damaging wind activity near insured properties and portfolios.
Catastrophe Model Validation
Compare available historical severe storm observations, geographic footprints, and intensity information with catastrophe model assumptions and event estimates.
Risk Intelligence & Corporate Security
Monitor damaging storm activity near facilities, operational locations, and important infrastructure.
Supply Chain & Logistics Technology
Identify severe storm threats and observed conditions near suppliers, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, and transportation networks.
Business Continuity & Resilience
Support preparedness, incident monitoring, exposure assessment, and post-event operational review following significant severe convective storms.
Property & Asset Monitoring
Identify buildings, facilities, and other assets potentially exposed to damaging hail, severe winds, or tornadoes.
AI-Powered Catastrophe & Decision Intelligence
Connect severe storm observations, geographic footprints, historical records, property exposure, and available reported impacts to support automated analysis and future decision-support applications.
Related Products & Data Capabilities
Severe Storm Intelligence Connected to a Broader Disaster Data Foundation.
DisasterAWARE connects hail, damaging wind, and tornado intelligence with authoritative warnings, observed hazard data, historical catastrophe records, geographic exposure, and available impact information.
Explore Our Severe Convective Storm Dataset
Access available historical hail swaths, estimated hail sizes, tornado tracks, damaging wind observations, and supporting catastrophe records.
Designed for insurance, reinsurance, catastrophe analytics, property risk, and geospatial applications.
Related Data Capabilities
Warnings & Predictive Intelligence
Explore authoritative severe weather warnings, forecast information, and geographic threat areas for developing storms.
Observed Hazard Intelligence
Understand where damaging storm conditions were observed or estimated through hail swaths, wind footprints, tornado tracks, and severity information.
Exposure & Impact Intelligence
Connect severe storm footprints with potentially exposed properties, infrastructure, populations, and available reported consequences.
Historical Disaster Database
Access enriched historical catastrophe records, including hail, tornado, and damaging wind events, geographic footprints, severity information, and available impacts.
Global Coverage & Sources
Explore DisasterAWARE's authoritative meteorological integrations, geographic coverage, scientific sources, and supporting severe storm data network.
Geospatial Data Layers
Access weather radar, precipitation, wind, forecast, hazard, exposure, and infrastructure layers to complement severe convective storm intelligence.
Related Hazard Intelligence
Severe Weather
Monitor authoritative severe weather warnings, meteorological forecasts, observed conditions, and broader weather threats.
Floods
Explore flood warnings, hydrological observations, available inundation footprints, and historical flood intelligence associated with significant rainfall events.
Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
Follow tropical cyclone activity, wind fields, intensity, and related severe weather hazards.
All Hazard Types
Discover DisasterAWARE's broader multi-hazard intelligence offering across natural disasters, severe weather, environmental threats, and human-induced disruptions.
Severe Storm Intelligence That Goes Beyond the Warning.
A severe thunderstorm warning can identify where damaging weather may occur. But insurers, catastrophe analysts, and operational risk platforms need to understand where damaging conditions actually occurred—or were estimated to occur—and how severe those conditions may have been. DisasterAWARE combines authoritative severe weather warnings, radar-derived hail intelligence, damaging wind footprints, tornado tracks, historical catastrophe records, and available exposure and impact information. From near-real-time storm monitoring to historical event analysis and property exposure assessment, our intelligence helps technology partners deliver more meaningful severe convective storm intelligence to their customers.