Built around OSHA & NOAA 30-minute lightning guidance

Know the moment lightning threatens your job site.

Lightning Ward texts your crew when a strike is detected within 10 miles of your site, then sends an automatic all-clear after 30 minutes with no new activity — the standard OSHA and NOAA recommend. No hardware. No app to install.

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Lightning Ward · 2:41 PM

⚡ LIGHTNING ALERT — Strike detected 6.2 mi from 4800 Fairmont Pkwy. Stop outdoor & crane operations. All-clear will follow after 30 min with no new strikes. Live map: lightningward.com/status/…

Lightning Ward · 3:19 PM

✅ ALL CLEAR — No lightning within 10 mi of 4800 Fairmont Pkwy for 30 minutes. Operations may resume per OSHA/NOAA guidance.

How it works

From address to active monitoring in two minutes

No weather stations to mount, no apps for the crew to download. If your foreman can receive a text, you're covered.

Register your site address

Enter the job site address and the phone numbers that should get alerts. We geocode the site and watch a 10-mile radius around it around the clock.

Get texted when lightning hits

The first strike detected inside 10 miles triggers one clear SMS to every contact on the site — stop work, clear cranes and open ground. No alert spam: follow-up strikes silently reset the timer.

All-clear, automatically

After 30 consecutive minutes with no strikes inside the radius — the OSHA/NOAA-recommended wait — every contact gets an all-clear text so work resumes without guesswork.

What you get

Everything a safety plan needs, nothing it doesn't

Purpose-built for superintendents and safety managers who need a defensible lightning procedure — not another dashboard to babysit.

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10-mile radius monitoring

Continuous monitoring of professional-grade strike detection data around your exact site coordinates — not a county-wide weather alert.

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30-minute all-clear timer

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.

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Live status page per site

Each site gets a shareable status page with a live strike map, radar overlay, and countdown. Pin it in the crew group chat — no login needed.

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Alert the whole crew

Add multiple phone numbers per site — foreman, superintendent, safety manager. Everyone gets the same alert at the same time.

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Works on any phone

Plain SMS. No app to install, no accounts for field crews, nothing to keep updated. It works on a flip phone in a dead zone of app-store coverage.

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Compliance report export

Every strike, alert, and all-clear is logged with a timestamp. Export a clean PDF report for any date range — ready for OSHA inspectors, insurers, or project owners.

Pricing

Simple per-company pricing

Every plan includes full monitoring, SMS alerts, all-clear timers, and live status pages. No contracts, no sales calls — cancel anytime.

Starter

One active job site, up to three alert contacts.

$29

per month

1 monitored site
3 alert contacts
SMS alerts & 30-min all-clear
Live status page with strike map

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Common questions

Something else on your mind? Email us — a real person answers.

How quickly do alerts arrive after a strike?

We continuously monitor Xweather's professional lightning detection network and send the SMS as soon as a strike is confirmed inside your 10-mile radius — typically within a few minutes of the strike. Storms are usually detected while still miles out, giving crews time to secure equipment and get to shelter.

Why 10 miles and 30 minutes?

Those are the thresholds recommended in OSHA/NOAA lightning safety guidance for outdoor workers (OSHA publication 3863): suspend work when lightning is within 10 miles, and wait 30 minutes after the last strike before resuming. Lightning Ward automates exactly that procedure — including resetting the 30-minute clock every time a new strike is detected.

Does my crew need to install anything?

No. Alerts are plain text messages, and the live status page is a normal web link that opens in any browser. Only the account owner ever signs in — field crews just receive texts.

What happens if a storm is already overhead when I sign up?

The moment your site activates, we check the last hour of strike history around it. If lightning has already been detected inside your radius, we immediately put the site in alert status and start the 30-minute countdown — you're never starting blind.

Can I change sites as jobs finish and new ones start?

Yes. Sites aren't locked in — from your dashboard you can remove a finished job site and add the next one anytime, within your plan's site count.

Can I document our lightning procedure for OSHA or insurers?

Yes. Every detected strike, alert, and all-clear is logged with a timestamp. From your dashboard you can export a compliance report for any date range — it shows when alerts went out, how many contacts were notified, and when operations were cleared to resume, along with the detection methodology. Print it or save it as a PDF.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There are no contracts or cancellation fees. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime from the billing portal in your dashboard, and monitoring runs through the end of your paid period.