ThunderCall is a computer based system for delivering NWS(National Weather
Service) severe weather warnings as a message (personalized information, if desired)
via an automated dialing system to live persons and to automated recorders comprising
the steps of: forming a database of names with their respective geographic locations;
capturing a NWS Bulletin reciting the location of a severe storm; validating a
relevant Bulletin into a Valid Bulletin by determining from the storm's location
that it represents an imminent severe storm danger to at least one person of said
database (capable of 10,000,000 or more persons) recording, if desired, an individual
personal urgent warning to the name of the intended recipient of the Valid Bulletin;
combining, if desired, said personal warning with a generic severe storm warning
for said recipient; and, sending said Valid Bulletin with said combined warnings
to said person whereby he is alerted within seconds of the release time of said
National Weather Service bulletin to the danger of said storm. The storms can include
but are not limited to warnings for tornados, severe storms, hurricanes, winter
storms, and other impending storms, and the like, and can be delivered to answering
machines, live telephone recipients, PC screens, and can further shut down electrical
equipment such as PCs.
