Case Study: City of Cape Coral achieves enhanced outdoor safety with Earth Networks' automated lightning and severe weather alerting

City of Cape Coral Relies on Automated Lightning and Severe Weather Alerting System to Help Keep Citizens and Visitors Safe

The City of Cape Coral faced a persistent public-safety challenge: as one of the highest lightning-risk cities in the U.S., its 120-square-mile, 180,000+ community needed a scalable, automated way to alert residents and visitors to severe weather. Cape Coral engaged Earth Networks to provide automated lightning and severe-weather alerting, leveraging the Outdoor Alerting System (OAS) and the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network® (ENTLN).

Earth Networks deployed OAS units across 17 public parks, a web-based real-time weather visualization dashboard, and automated mobile/email/text alerts (including Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts and NWS notices). The ENTLN’s detection of both in-cloud and cloud-to-ground strikes increased overall lightning detection by up to 250%, enabling streamlined, large-scale alerting, simpler implementation, and improved public safety and situational awareness for Cape Coral.

Cape Coral

Art Avellino

Athletic and Revenue Superintendent