A text to the supervisor and crew leads when lightning is detected within 20 miles of a location, 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 in effect for that address. Crews go back after 30 strike-free minutes, on a rule.
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Each stage sends once per storm. No repeats, no chatter. Every text your supervisors get means something changed. The three warning texts also carry the National Weather Service forecast for that location, looked up fresh each time, so you can make the best call on when to stand the job down.
Lightning is in the area, with distance and direction. Nothing stops. The supervisor on location knows it's out there.
It's closing. Get hands down from height, and work out how this job gets to a stopping point before the next text.
All outdoor operations stop — the distance in OSHA/NOAA guidance. By now your crews should already be clear.
Thirty strike-free minutes, then crews go back. Every new strike restarts the clock — a rule, not a judgment call.
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 location, no app for your hands to download. If a crew lead can receive a text, he's covered.
Enter the location's address and the numbers that get alerts — the supervisor on location, the crew leads, the company man, and whoever is dispatching from the yard. When the job moves, stop monitoring that location and add the next one; the slot frees up. We watch the airspace around every location 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 the location's end of day 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. Then, after 30 consecutive strike-free minutes — the OSHA/NOAA-recommended wait for outdoor workers — every contact gets the all-clear, so crews go back on the same authority that sent them in, not on whoever got restless first.
Built for service company owners, HSE managers and company men who need one defensible lightning procedure across every location — not another dashboard to babysit.
Three tiers instead of one, around each location's coordinates — not a county-wide alert for the whole basin. The early tiers are what a hand on location can't do himself: he 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 the location is due to shut down for the day. The near view and the longer one in a single message, so nobody opens a weather app to decide whether to stop outdoor operations. We relay the Weather Service; we don't forecast anything ourselves.
A hand up the mast, a wireline tool string in the hole, a crew at the far end of a right-of-way — none of that is wrapped up the second a text lands, and the nearest hard shelter is usually a crew truck. That's why the ladder starts at 20 miles instead of 10: the advisory and the watch buy back the minutes those jobs actually take.
Every new strike resets the clock. The all-clear only goes out after a full 30 strike-free minutes, matching OSHA 3863 and NOAA guidance — so crews go back on a rule, not on someone's read of the sky.
Each location gets a shareable status page with a live strike map, radar overlay, countdown, and the next twelve hours from the National Weather Service. Send it to the company man or pin it in the crew group chat — no login, nothing to explain.
Every location runs on the same distances and the same 30-minute clock, whoever is supervising it that day. Your dashboard shows which locations are in alert and which are clear, so the office knows without calling around.
Add every number that needs to know when outdoor operations stop — the supervisor, the crew leads, the company man, the yard. Every contact gets every stage at the same time. No relay by radio, nobody finding out after the fact.
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 the operator, your client, or your contractor safety file.
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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