Skywarn

What Skywarn does

Metro Skywarn operates as a non-profit volunteer organization that delivers severe weather spotter training and maintains a coordinated amateur radio reporting network serving a metropolitan area. Its function is to extend the reach of the National Weather Service's SKYWARN program by training local volunteers to identify and report hazardous weather phenomena, then relaying those reports through amateur radio channels to meteorologists and emergency management authorities.

The organization's core activity is education and coordination rather than the production of commercial goods or software. Training is delivered through structured sessions aligned with NWS SKYWARN protocols, and reports are transmitted via amateur (ham) radio infrastructure rather than proprietary technology platforms. No proprietary products, technology stack, patents, or branded applications are documented in the available sources.

Metro Skywarn is structured as a non-profit volunteer association rather than a revenue-generating enterprise; no pricing model, monetization mechanism, customer contracts, or donor/grant disclosures were available in the input. The website at metroskywarn.org, the organization's primary public presence, returned only a verification/loading page during data collection, limiting the ability to characterize operational scale, volunteer count, training cadence, or geographic footprint with precision.

Name

Skywarn

Website

https://metroskywarn.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Metro Skywarn is a non-profit volunteer organization that provides severe weather spotter training and coordinates an amateur radio reporting network to relay hazard observations to the National Weather Service and local emergency management.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emergency Preparedness & Weather Spotting Services

NAICS

Radio Broadcasting Stations (51611)

SIC

Radiotelephone Communications (4812), Communications Services, Nec (4899)

akta.pro primary industry

Traffic/Weather/Information Radio Networks (MPABABAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Weather & Emergency Information Channels (MPABAIAF), Public Safety Communications / 911 Telecommunicator Training (EDAOAMAH)

Keywords

• Volunteer weather spotting
• Severe weather reporting
• Amateur radio network
• Spotter training programs
• Weather emergency coordination

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Metro Skywarn provides volunteer severe weather spotter training and supports a coordinated amateur radio reporting network. The organization trains individual community volunteers to recognize and relay reports of tornadoes, hail, damaging winds, and flooding to meteorologists, typically operating as a regional affiliate of the national SKYWARN severe weather reporting program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Volunteer Severe Weather Spotter Training Standardized training program that teaches community volunteers and amateur radio operators how to identify severe weather phenomena (tornadoes, hail, damaging winds, flooding) and report them using the SKYWARN reporting protocol to the National Weather Service.
• Amateur Radio Severe Weather Reporting Network Coordinated volunteer amateur radio reporting network that relays real-time severe weather ground-truth observations from trained spotters to meteorologists and emergency managers during severe weather events in the metro area.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• American Radio Relay League (ARRL): The national association for amateur radio operators in the U.S., representing a broader umbrella over local Skywarn and RACES volunteer networks. Comparable as the larger, established organization governing the ecosystem in which Skywarn operates.
• NWS Storm Spotter Program: The National Weather Service's national SKYWARN program, under which local chapters like Metro Skywarn operate. Comparable as the institutional parent of the regional volunteer spotter network Metro Skywarn supports.
• Weather Underground (citizen weather station network): Operates a large-scale citizen weather observation network, including personal weather stations. Comparable to Skywarn as a crowdsourced weather-data ecosystem, though commercial and technology-led rather than volunteer-amateur-radio based.

Direct peers

• RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service): A program of amateur radio operators trained to provide emergency communications for state and local governments. Closely aligned with Skywarn in using trained amateur radio volunteers for public-safety reporting and emergency coordination.
• CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network): A national volunteer network of trained weather observers reporting precipitation and severe weather. Directly comparable to Skywarn as a grassroots citizen-science weather reporting program with a training and reporting-network operating model.
• REACT International: Volunteer-based emergency communications organization using amateur and public-service radio to support public safety. Directly comparable to Metro Skywarn as a volunteer radio reporting network providing communications backup during emergencies.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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