[Skywarn] Stormwarn/StormNow ceasing operations 4/1/12

[Greg Williams]

I was using a service called StormNow (also known as StormWarn) for  
email notifications on severe weather for my area. It was valuable and  
99% of the time I got the warnings simultaneous with the alerts that  
came over the air. I was a customer for most of the 14 years it was in  
operation.

They're shutting down operations effecting the 1st of April. If any of  
you were using it, you should be getting a refund.

I would send these notifications to a mailing list so that dozens of  
users (ham operators, EMAs, scanner listeners, anyone who wanted them)  
could receive these alerts.

I've been looking for a service similar to StormWarn in order to  
replace it, but either they limit the number of counties, limit the  
number of warnings to receive, or spammed me with non-essential info.

the iNWS someone posted earlier looks promising. If anyone else has  
suggestions for services to use I'd appreciate it.

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http://www.stormnow.com

A Notice to Our Customers
StormNow will be ceasing operations effective April 1, 2012.
We are proud of our legacy and the years we have been given the  
opportunity to provide this life-saving service to our community. But  
changes in technology along with other factors have marginalized the  
need for our offerings.

It is our hope that in giving you these two months of advanced notice,  
you will have time to find a satisfactory replacement service prior to  
our closure; please respect that we will not be able to provide any  
vendor-replacement recommendations. Also note that for those on the  
monthly auto-payment plan, the last monthly charge will be made during  
the first week of March after which we will be deleting all auto- 
charge records from our system.

We are also prepared to send a refund check to all customers who meet  
all three of the following qualifications:

	• Have $2.00 or more in their StormNow account at the time of service  
termination
	• Have updated (if necessary) their StormNow account settings with  
their current mailing address
	• Have requested a refund from the DataSwitch Administrative Help  
Desk prior to April 6, 2012

Refund checks will be mailed out to all customers who comply with the  
above requirements on or before April 30, 2012.

Following our closure on April 1, we will be selling our NOAA Port  
configuration, which includes a 12 foot dish, LNB, Feed Horn, Novra  
S-300 receiver, associated cabling and hardware, and fully configured  
LDM Linux-based processing server.

This is a very robust configuration that is fully setup and is very  
well documented. If you are interested in learning more, please  
contact the DataSwitch Administrative Help Desk prior to April 6, 2012.

It has been a pleasure serving you for the past 14 years.

Sincerely,
The StormNow Team



Greg Williams
gregwilliams at knology.net
k4hsm at knology.net