Who Is Using ThunderEagle® Products?

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NWS

American National Red Cross

Fairfax County, VA

Williamsburg / James City County, VA

Henry County Medical Center, Paris, TN (Winner of NWS Mark Trail Award!)

FEMA, US. Dept of Health and Human Services

NBC

Nuclear Power Plants

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National Weather Service

A Thunder Eagle Alert Eagle 400 has been located in the National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington Forecast Office’s operations area for the past three years. This office has the responsibility of providing emergency alerts to the nation’s capital region, which includes two major metropolitan areas and a population of over 8 million people.  The AE400 decodes the SAME/emergency alert messages off the air, prints them out in hard copy and displays them on a LED signboard in real time so the forecasters can verify that the correct alert has been transmitted. The unit proved itself during the floods in June 2006, where the AE400 informed the forecasters that the alerts were being reliably issued during the storm. The forecasters coming on shift used the print-out as a pre-shift briefing without bothering busy forecasters. Also, the AE400 print-out was used to verify and complete the NWS official log of alerts for the event. More than 250 alerts were issued in four days and the AE400 preformed flawlessly.

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American Red Cross

The American Red Cross has equipped their fleet of Hummer and field emergency communication Excursions with Weather Eagle radios. These communication vehicles are deployed to disaster areas throughout the country, where the communications infrastructure has often been severely damaged. A Weather Eagle radio helped to track Hurricane Fran in 1996, when the advance team went from the Atlanta Olympics to New Bern, NC. The Weather Eagle also helped to track a devastating tornado system, which was traveling across South Dakota in 1998. Weather Eagle 110’s are on every Red Cross’ regional communications vehicles and  were very helpful in responding to Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

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Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management and  County School System

Fairfax County, Virginia, (population over 1 million), located about 12 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., installed a Weather Eagle System in its Emergency Operations Center in 2002 The system automatically places weather and emergency alerts on the county’s state-of-the-art extensive trunked radio system. Weather-talk groups were created to receive real time alerts in the field, as well as have access to live weather 24/7/365). This has proven useful for field trips and sporting events for the schools 1,675 school buses which transport 110,000 students each day who now have access to these weather alerts and reports at any time. The world renowned Fairfax County Fire and Rescue department uses the Weather Eagle alert system through their trunked radio system every day and in particular when deciding on whether to raise a tower ladder and in deciding how to conduct rescue operations.

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Williamsburg, James City County, VA

In 1995, the first Weather Eagle200 (WE200) interface radio was installed in the City of Williamsburg fire headquarters. The WE200 successfully received weather alerts from the NWS transmitter in Norfolk, Virginia, 50 miles to the south, and automatically relayed the weather alerts to the fire department’s local fire ground channel. Weather Eagle units have been used for years by surrounding James City County and their school system. Led signboards are located in every school, police station, fire station, EOC, library and recreation center.

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Henry County Medical Center, Paris, TN

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Located in northwestern Tennessee, Henry County had no reliable weather radio coverage due to their great distance from the NWS transmitters. In 1999, Darryl Wilson from the Henry County Medical Center contacted Thunder Eagle to design an interface for the medical center to receive NOAA weather radio. Thunder Eagle created a special interface to transmit severe weather alerts for Henry County on the county ambulance radio channel. As the system was turned on for the first time, Henry County received an alert for real tornadoes that were touching down in the area. People all over the county took shelter and the NWS awarded Darryl and the hospital a national Mark Trail award for helping the NWS save lives.

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U.S.  Department of Homeland Security -FEMA

Field personnel from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regularly use Weather Eagle radios when they are deployed to disaster areas. The Weather Eagle radios automatically find the best local weather channel and record the most recent alert for playback. Thunder Eagle radios can be operated on batteries from tents or other field facilities and will easily interface into FEMA’s other systems.

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National Broadcasting System (NBC)

NBC-TV in New York City installed a Weather Eagle radio repeater on top a national landmark building in 1994 to relay weather alerts to reporters in the field. The Weather Eagle transmits these alerts over a radius of 60 miles from northern New Jersey to beyond Westchester and to Long Island. The repeater sends a sub-audible signal to activate receivers in the field each time a weather alert is sent. The New York City Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management also uses a Weather Eagle alert system.

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Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear power plants in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Pennsylvania are using Weather Eagle Systems in their critical operations.  Due to their ‘rf shielded design’, special thought had to go into designing a system for these plants. Severe weather emergencies, such as tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes are major events for nuclear power plants because they must switch to locally generated power to maintain control over their facility in case of a local power failure. Personnel at a major nuclear power plant in California installed Alert Eagle 400 decoders in 2005 after other weather alert systems in the area had missed a tornado. The Weather Eagle system receives the National Weather Service alerts and distributes them on a hard-wired internal audio signal system throughout the facility. The system has worked reliably since its installation.

08/25/07

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