A text to the manager on shift, the pool staff and the bar when lightning is detected within 20 miles of your hotel, another at 15, and the stop operations alert at 10 — each with the distance and direction of the closest strike, plus any National Weather Service thunderstorm forecast or watch for that address. The deck reopens after 30 strike-free minutes.
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Each stage sends once per storm. No repeats, no chatter. Every text the manager on shift gets means something changed. The three warning texts also carry the National Weather Service forecast for your address, looked up fresh each time, so you can make the best call on when to close the deck.
Lightning is in the area, with distance and direction. Nothing closes. The manager on shift knows it's out there.
It's closing. Stop seating the rooftop, warn the banquet captain, and have pool staff ready to clear the deck.
All outdoor amenity operations must stop. Staff clear the pool deck, the rooftop and the cabanas, and service moves in.
Thirty strike-free minutes, then the deck reopens. Every new strike restarts the clock — a rule, not someone's patience.
A text reaches your staff. Your staff reach the guests. Lightning Ward doesn't clear a pool deck by itself — nobody on a lounge chair is on the contact list. What it does is give the pool attendant, the bar and the manager on shift the same message at the same second, so the people guests actually listen to know it's time.
Not every storm announces itself. A cell that forms directly overhead can put lightning inside 10 miles with nothing detected further out — those sites get the stop operations alert first and nothing before it. The early stages are what we can see coming.
No weather station on the roof, no app for your staff to download. If a pool attendant can get a text, the pool attendant's covered.
Enter the address and the numbers that get alerts — the manager on shift, the pool and beach attendants, the rooftop bar, whoever is running events, and the grounds crew lead. A pool, a rooftop and a beach on one property sit a short walk apart, which is small against a 10-mile ring, so one address covers them all. We watch the airspace around it around the clock, out to 20 miles.
Lightning inside 20 miles sends an advisory; inside 15, a watch. Each names the distance and direction of the closest strike, alongside what the National Weather Service has published for that address — the hours thunderstorms are forecast, any watch or warning in effect, and your outdoor amenities' closing time if you've set operating hours. One text per stage, per storm. Nobody's phone buzzes for nothing.
A strike inside 10 miles sends the stop operations alert, and staff clear the deck. Then, after 30 consecutive strike-free minutes, every contact gets the all-clear at the same moment, so the pool reopens on one call — not on whichever guest asked the loudest.
Built for the GM, the director of operations and the front desk manager who will be on shift when the sky turns — not another dashboard to babysit.
Three tiers instead of one, around your hotel's coordinates — not a county-wide alert for the whole metro. The early tiers are the part nobody at the front desk can do: you can hear thunder at ten miles, not see a cell at twenty.
Each warning carries what the National Weather Service has published for that exact address — the hours thunderstorms are forecast, any watch or warning in effect, and when your outdoor amenities are due to close. The near view and the longer one in a single message, so nobody opens a weather app to decide whether to close the pool. We relay the Weather Service; we don't forecast anything ourselves.
A full pool, a rooftop bar with open tabs, a wedding on the terrace at five — none of that is indoors the second a text lands. That's why the ladder starts at 20 miles instead of 10: the advisory and the watch buy back the minutes it takes to move guests and service inside.
Every new strike resets the clock. The all-clear only goes out after a full 30 strike-free minutes, so the deck reopens on a rule — not on how long guests have been asking.
Each site gets a shareable status page with a live strike map, radar overlay, countdown, and the next twelve hours from the National Weather Service. At handoff, the incoming manager opens the link and sees where the countdown stands — no briefing, no login.
Add every number that needs to know when outdoor amenity operations stop — the front desk, the pool and beach attendants, the rooftop bar, events, the grounds crew. Every contact gets every stage at the same time. No radio relay, nobody hearing it first from a guest.
Plain SMS. No app to install, no accounts for the people receiving alerts, nothing to keep updated. It works on a flip phone in a dead zone of app-store coverage.
Every strike, alert, and all-clear is logged with a timestamp. Export a clean PDF report for any date range — when each stop alert went out, when the all-clear followed, and how many contacts were texted. Ready for your GM, your owners, or a guest asking why the pool closed at 2:40.
Every plan includes full monitoring, staged SMS alerts with the National Weather Service forecast, all-clear timers, and live status pages. No contracts, no sales calls — cancel anytime.
Prices are per company, not per user. Annual billing works out to roughly two months free.
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