HailTrax reports are produced by Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. (WDT). WDT's meteorologists are experts in severe storm forensic analysis with combined experience of over 100 years at the National Severe Storms Laboratory and other key organizations within the Oklahoma Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Customized Weather Decision Support Systems™ featuring patented short-term predictions of severe storm movement and evolution, lightning, hail and flash flooding
  • Real-time weather event displays and notification services
  • Forensic weather analysis of local damaging storm events including flooding, damaging winds, tornadoes and hail
  • Weather forecasting systems

WDT's systems are designed to meet the needs of each customer in each unique industry. Amusement park operators, 911 call center managers, television weather broadcasters, airline managers, insurance claims managers, golf course directors and key decision makers in vitually all other industries are impacted by weather every day. WDT has the systems and information to meet those needs.

Industry & Management Expertise

  • President and CEO is a renowned industry leader. Former Assistant Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma.
  • Key officers have specific experience with the ARPS systems, super computer technologies, NEXRAD radar systems, custom applications system design & installation and meteorology from various organizations within the Oklahoma Weather Center.

Management

  • Mike Eilts, President & CEO Prior coming to WDT, he served as the Assistant Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, where he grew the Stormscale Research and Applications Division from 20 people and $900k in external funds in 1994 to the present 99 people and $7.4 Million in external funds. (M.S. in Meteorology & MBA, University of Oklahoma)
  • Kirk Whitener, Senior Vice President & CFO Former CFO of a large manufacturing company with $40 Million annual worldwide sales. (B.S. in Accountancy, Univ. of Oklahoma; Certified Management Accountant; Certified Public Accountant)
  • Dr. Richard Carpenter, Vice President for Numerical Prediction Technologies He has 6 years experience managing Advanced Regional Prediction System operations for the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms. (Ph.D. in Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma, 1994)
  • Bill Conway, Vice President for Custom Technologies He has 15 years software development and project management experience at NCAR and NSSL. (MS in Meteorology, 1990, Univ. of Oklahoma)
  • J. T. Johnson, Vice President for Internet Technologies Has 11 years management and software development leadership experience at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. While at NSSL he was instrumental in the development of the Warning Decision Support System (WDSS) and several severe weather detection and prediction algorithms. (MS in Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma, 1992
 
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