The Core Values of HailStrike

- Honesty, Integrity and Respect -

WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS...WE WANT IT BAD! BUT...

We live in a world where opinions often matter more than facts. At HailStrike, when it comes to storm data, we are committed to delivering the absolute truth—to the fullest extent possible. If that truth helps you, we celebrate with you! If it doesn’t, we hope to earn your trust the next time you need us.

We didn’t pursue our patents to impress anyone, instead, we want to provide you complete transparency into our entire process. Yes, we want your business! But...we will never do 'whatever it takes' to get it. So, if you value truth over opinion, we’re the right partner for you.

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The #1 question we always hear: "So what makes you guys different from the others?"

The short answer – Our patents!

Our Process
Patent #10,436,894 - "Systems and methods for hail activity display"
Patent #9,678,206 - "Systems and methods for inferring localized hail intensity"

What do these patents cover?

What they do – We developed an algorithm that analyzes several elements of a storm cell including:

Vertically Integrated Liquid (VIL)
VIL Density (VILD)
Enhanced Echo Tops (EET)
Spatial Offset (Z differential)
Probability Of Severe Hail (POSH)
Hail Index Maximum Size (NHI)
Ground Truth (spotter reports)
Lowest radar level (.5 degrees)
From these ‘products” of the Doppler Radar(s), our algorithm calculates the DHI (Derived Hail Index) “Intensity” and the result is used in our maps, reports and API services. We didn’t seek our patents to boast, but rather to demonstrate our commitment to complete transparency. This way, virtually anyone can simply go online and look up our patents and see EXACTLY what we do and how. Many of the “other guys” will only say their processes are “trade secrets” or “proprietary” or even best of all: “trust us…we are the best”

Why is INTENSITY such a big deal?

Early in the development of the HailStrike tool, it was clear the entire industry was relying on reporting the “size” of hail. The challenge with this, is that there is an incredible variance from location to location. Often times, the ‘Size of Hail’ is usually the ‘BIGGEST’ piece of hail. This has proven to be a very weak indicator of potential damage. While there may have been (for example) 2″ MAXIMUM hail…if only a few hailstones were that size, there may have been thousands of others that were much smaller incapable of causing damage to property.