StrikeNet vs StationDeck

Lightning is one of nature’s biggest killers. Pantex, along with our fellow Texas Panhandle ranchers, farmers, businesses, home owners and schools, are working together to provide you with the Pantex StrikeNet app! Pantex StrikeNet uses a combination of a weather station that provides rainfall, humidity, temperature, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure and dew point. In addition, the weather stations provide information such as heat index, wind chill, rainfall rates, yesterday and today’s rainfall, yearly rainfall and much more! What Pantex StrikeNet adds is a state-of-the-art lightning sensor that has a range of up to 30 miles on top of the weather station data. So, now you can see both the lightning data from each site and the up-to-the-second weather data as well! To access “wind chill” and “heat index” information, simply touch the word “Temperature”. To access dew point values, simply touch the word, “Humidity”. To see the one minute average wind gust and the highest wind gust since midnight, touch once, then twice on the word, “Wind”. To see the rainfall rate, touch once on the word, “Rain”. Touch again on the word “Rain” to see “Yesterday’s Rainfall”. Touch a third time to see the “48 hour rainfall” . A fourth touch on the word “Rain” will show you the yearly rainfall at that location. To see the barometric pressure change since midnight, touch the word, “Pressure.” Touch the Lightning bolt icon to display the date & time of the last strike and the total strikes yesterday. Touch again to return to the last strike distance and energy, and the total strikes of the day. Long Touch the Lightning Bolt Icon and you will be taken to the StrikeNet Map of all sites in the network allowing you to see live data from all sites simultaneously. Touch the left arrow button on the map to return back to the main screen. On the main screen, long touch a blank area of the screen to clear the display. Pantex wants to thank it’s community partners who are working with them to provide this very important weather data to the residents of the Texas Panhandle!

StationDeck turns a personal weather station into the weather app you actually want — and works even before you own one. Connect an Ecowitt or Ambient Weather station, or pull readings through Home Assistant. Point it at any public Weather Underground station — usually a neighbour's back garden rather than an airport twenty miles away. Don't have a station yet? Start with the nearest official National Weather Service station and add your own hardware later. YOUR DASHBOARD, YOUR ORDER Every card can be reordered or hidden. Temperature, feels-like, dew point, humidity, wind, rain, pressure, solar, UV, indoor conditions — arranged the way you read them, not the way someone else decided. FEELS LIKE, CORRECTED The standard heat index is a shade figure. The National Weather Service notes that direct sun can add as much as 15°F to how hot it actually feels. StationDeck uses your station's own solar sensor to apply that correction, alongside NWS wind chill when it's cold — a number your station's stock feels-like doesn't give you. TRENDS THAT GO SOMEWHERE Tap any reading for its history: 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or a full year, with high, low and average. Barometric tendency is read out properly — rising, falling, and what that usually means — because a bare pressure number tells you nothing on its own. WIND, READ CORRECTLY Direction on a compass dial rather than a bare number, and a wind rose showing where the wind actually came from over time. Not a line chart, which is meaningless for a value that wraps through north. RADAR AND FORECASTS Animated precipitation radar with adjustable base map, opacity and playback. Official NWS forecasts, daily and hourly, for your station and any other town you care about. Severe weather alerts scoped to your exact coordinates. WEATHER MODELS Compare GFS, ECMWF, ICON, HRRR and five more side by side, as charts or as a map you can scrub through hour by hour. When the models disagree, that spread is the honest measure of confidence — and StationDeck shows it rather than hiding it behind a single number. ALL-TIME RECORDS Hottest, coldest, strongest gust, wettest day and wettest month, each with the date it happened, computed from your station's own history. SENSOR HEALTH Battery voltages become plain language — Good, Fair, Replace Soon — with an estimate of how long is left, learned from the actual drain rate over time. Solar-charged sensors are treated as what they are rather than flagged as failing every night. WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES Home Screen widgets with four independently chosen readings, Lock Screen widgets, and a Live Activity that starts on its own when it rains or the wind gets up. ALERTS THAT MATTER High gust, freezing, heavy rain, low sensor battery, and a station that has stopped reporting — plus official NWS severe weather warnings. BUILT THE WAY IT SHOULD BE No account. No analytics. No tracking. No advertising. StationDeck never asks for your location — you tell it where you are. Your API keys stay in the device Keychain and are sent only to the service they belong to. Settings sync through your own iCloud account, which the developer cannot see. Forecasts, alerts and official station observations cover the United States and its territories. Your own station, radar and weather models work anywhere.