When Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 storm, the wind damage was severe — but it was the flooding hundreds of miles inland that proved most catastrophic. For the emergency managers watching it unfold in real time, the difference between a good decision and a bad one came down to what they could see, and how fast.
In our recent webinar, Baron Weather and Esri explored how weather intelligence and ArcGIS can work together to help organizations get ahead of exactly these kinds of moments — before conditions deteriorate and options narrow.
"You need the weather running in the background and giving you that tap on the shoulder when you need to pay attention."
What We Covered
The conversation touched on some scenarios and questions that will feel familiar to anyone in emergency management, public safety, or infrastructure operations:
- How do you know when to pull emergency responders off the road — and when it's safe to send them back out?
- What does it actually look like to monitor a storm's progression across a county in real time, with shelters, hospitals, and road closures all on the same map?
- How can organizations automate weather alerts inside ArcGIS so the right people get notified at the right thresholds — without watching a dashboard all day?
- Why does rainfall history matter as much as the forecast — and how do you account for both?
Jessica Stumpf brought direct operational experience from managing the Helene response in South Carolina. Dan Gallagher walked through how Baron's weather layers work inside ArcGIS dashboards. And Matt Adams from Esri demonstrated how tools like Watch Center and ArcGIS Velocity bring automated alerting and real-time coordination to life.
Watch the Webinar
The recording includes live demos, a real-time radar walkthrough, and a firsthand account of what operational decision-making looks like when a major storm is bearing down.
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