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AllisonHouse, LLC. is a weather data warehouse that organizes and provides radar data, surface observations, upper air, watches & warnings, lightning, storm reports, hurricane forecasts, satellite, outlooks, storm tracks and more! If you need a reliable source, or backup service, this is the place to go. AllisonHouse does not use publically available data sources, they have their own pipeline to the raw data files, so if the public web sites and online images go down, AllisonHouse will still have uninterrupted data. This data is then ingested into your favorite radar software such as Gibson Ridge or StormLab for viewing over real-time radar images. This data is essential to any storm chaser or forecaster who wants detailed and real-time mesoscale weather data.

Integration Points

All of Gibson Ridge's radar products utilize an overlay/underlay data feed known as "Place files". The Spotter Network provides Place file compliant position and storm reports for utilization directly in the full range of Gibson Ridge products.

Storm Alert, Inc. better known for it's radar software called StormLab, has integrated everything Spotter Network has to offer. You can submit position reports, receive position reports, submit storm reports and pretty much anything else we can think of. Evan Bookbinder and the Spotter Network work closely together to make sure you get the best features of the Spotter Network integrated into a single console.

RadarLab HD is a weatherTAP application that allows the user to have interactive control over the weather graphic presentation. Using RadarLab HD, the user may select from any number of radar product images such as reflectivity, velocity and echo tops. It features base reflectivity using the higher resolution Level-II radar data, and also displays Level-III Radar from all the NEXRAD sites. Other features include storm tracks that contain storm path estimates with city labels, lightning data (with an optional upgrade to real-time lightning), and visual cues for severe weather watches, warnings and advisories. Zooming and panning of all the overlaid layers is also possible as well as loading up to 20 frames of animation. RadarLab HD also has an advanced radar filtering option to help remove clutter from the radar images. Users may set custom locations on the maps with lat/long coordinates, as well as overlay data such as Local Storm Reports, SpotterNetwork, current temperatures, airports, roads, city labels, county boundaries and much more. It also has other features such as satellite overlays, terrain maps and GPS compatibility. Visit weatherTAP to try weatherTAP and RadarLab HD absolutely free for a limited time.

SwiftWX maintains it's own proprietary position tracking and severe weather reporting system. However, Rory Groves and the Spotter Network worked together to come up with a data sharing mechanism that allows SwiftWX and Spotter Network to share position reports in real-time.

The Spotter Network provides KML files for use in Google Earth. We also provide a data feed for individual spotters or chasers so they can utilize Google Maps on their own website to show their current position.

eSpotter is a system to facilitate the submission of spotter reports to the National Weather Service. Spotter Network automatically tries to submit any Spotter Network reports into the eSpotter system. Not all NWS offices utilize eSpotter, but those that do receive Spotter Network reports directly into their weather console in under 60 seconds.

The Spotter Network and the Severe Studios Live ChaseCam Network take a bi-directional feed from each other so that the ChaseCam network can show real-time position data about where their member chasers are, and the Spotter Network can show which chasers have live video feeds currently operating. If you see a little movie camera icon that would be the Severe Studios folks with a live feed.

IEMChat Project is an effort of the Iowa Environmental Mesonet based at Iowa State University. The IEM Chat Project is an effort to support the realtime collaboration of operational meteorologists. The National Weather Service (NWS) is not affliated with this project, but some forecast offices do voluntarily participate. The SpotterNetwork injects storm reports into the IEMChat Project in real-time.

The Spotter Network not only uses the GPSTools API from Franson to build the free Spotter Network client, but also the GpsGate.com service to allow tracking of mobile phones and other devices that may not be able to or the owner does not want to run the SN client.