About Us

The USPLN is jointly owned and operated by Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. (WDT) and TOA Systems, Inc. (TOA). WDT's meteorologists are experts in severe storm forensic analysis with combined experience of over 100 years at the National Severe Storms Laboratory and other key organizations within the Oklahoma Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
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Areas of Expertise

• Customized Weather Decision Support Systems™ featuring patented short-term predictions of severe storm movement and evolution, lightning, hail and flash flooding
• Real-time weather event displays and notification services
• Forensic weather analysis of local damaging storm events including lightning, hail, flooding, damaging winds, tornadoes and hurricanes
• Weather forecasting systems

WDT's systems are designed to meet the needs of each customer in each unique industry. Amusement park operators, 911 call center managers, television weather broadcasters, airline managers, insurance claims managers, golf course directors and key decision makers in virtually all other industries are impacted by weather every day. WDT has the systems and information to meet those needs.

Industry & Management Expertise

• WDT’s President and CEO is a renowned industry leader  and former Assistant Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma.
• Key officers have specific experience with the ARPS systems, super computer technologies, NEXRAD radar systems, custom applications system design & installation and meteorology from various organizations within the Oklahoma Weather Center.

WDT Management

• Mike Eilts, President & CEO Prior coming to WDT, he served as the Assistant Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, where he grew the Stormscale Research and Applications Division from 20 people and $900k in external funds in 1994 to the present 99 people and $7.4 Million in external funds. (M.S. in Meteorology & MBA, University of Oklahoma)
• Dr. Richard Carpenter, Vice President for Numerical Prediction Technologies He has 6 years experience managing Advanced Regional Prediction System operations for the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms. (Ph.D. in Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma, 1994)
• Bill Conway, Vice President for Custom Technologies He has 15 years software development and project management experience at NCAR and NSSL. (MS in Meteorology, 1990, Univ. of Oklahoma)
• J. T. Johnson, Vice President for Internet Technologies Has 11 years management and software development leadership experience at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. While at NSSL he was instrumental in the development of the Warning Decision Support System (WDSS) and several severe weather detection and prediction algorithms. (MS in Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma, 1992)
• E. DeWayne Mitchell  Senior Meteorologist; Lead Forensic Products Manager. DeWayne’s background includes 12 years as a research associate and software developer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. His duties have included the development of automated techniques to identify severe storms using NEXRAD Doppler radar. He is our key technical representative on all WDT forensic technologies, services and products. (M.S. in Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma, 1997)

TOA Systems Management
Dr. Rodney Bent,  President & CEO Dr. Bent began his career as a lightning researcher, when he founded Atmospheric Research Systems Inc. (ARSI) in 1987. ARSI was awarded the first ever National Weather Service (NWS) purchase award of lightning data in 1992. Dr. Bent has become an international leader in time-of-arrival (TOA) technology for detecting lightning. Networks of TOA technology are installed worldwide. As the founder of TOA Systems, Inc. he pioneered the United States Precision Lightning Network (USPLN™).

Nimbus Weather Technology Management
Lynne Lawry, Vice President, Sales & Marketing  Prior to forming Nimbus Weather Technology in 2000, she spent 10 years with Global Atmospherics, Inc (now Vaisala TS Group).  Lynne spearheaded the development of forensic lightning reports and was the Applications Manager and Insurance Industry Manager for the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) forensic lightning products. Currently, Lynne has all sales and marketing responsibilities for WDT’s forensic weather products.