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For the professionals accountable when the sky turns: Vaisala-grade detection, simultaneous team alerting, and a defensible record of every call your venue makes. The instrument that tracked all sixteen stadiums of the 2026 World Cup, tuned to your ground. No hardware, ever.
StrikeWatch runs on the Vaisala National Lightning Detection Network, the reference standard relied on by the FAA and the National Weather Service, with ~84-meter median accuracy on cloud-to-ground strikes, and global coverage beyond the US. Over two billion lightning events are captured worldwide every year.
Your venue's exact coordinates are monitored continuously. No sensors on the roof, no site survey, no capital request to the board. When a strike lands near your ground, detection is a matter of seconds; so is notification of every person you designate.
The convention used at the highest level of sport is simple: suspend when lightning strikes within 8 miles; resume 30 minutes after the last strike inside the radius. Simple, until a storm cell stalls overhead, every new strike resets the clock, and two hundred people are looking at the sky and then at you.
StrikeWatch executes the protocol with you: staged alerts at 20 and 10 miles so the decision is prepared rather than sprung, the suspension call at your chosen radius, and the all-clear countdown running to the second, delivered simultaneously to your entire team by SMS and email, on any phone, with nothing to install.
Through the 2026 World Cup, StrikeWatch tracked every lightning strike around all sixteen stadiums: 3,069 strikes logged, 315 safety status changes called in real time, including 32 close enough to Hard Rock Stadium to stop play.
Pointed at your venue's exact coordinates, the same screen gives your whole team the storm's position at a glance: rings at 8, 10 and 20 miles, every strike plotted the second it lands, the status in plain words, and the all-clear clock counting where everyone can see it. Run it on any screen in the building; nothing to install.
And for the team out on the course or at the gates, the same call arrives as a text at the same second:
After an incident, one question decides everything: what did you know, and when did you act? Courts are now asking venues to show "functional weather-monitoring and lightning-detection systems." A free weather app on someone's phone is not an answer. A $12,000 siren installation is not a proportionate one.
Every StrikeWatch alert, threshold crossing and all-clear is recorded with a timestamp: a clean, auditable log of your venue's diligence, kept automatically, ready for your insurer, your board, or a courtroom. It is the difference between saying you followed the protocol and proving it.
StrikeWatch monitored every stadium of the 2026 tournament in real time, including the Azteca postponement and the most lightning-affected stadium in America. StrikeWatch is an independent information service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to FIFA. Lightning data powered by Vaisala Xweather.
| # | Stadium | Warning hours · 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens FL MONITORED LIVE BY STRIKEWATCH | 325 |
| 2 | Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge LA | 316 |
| 3 | Raymond James Stadium, Tampa FL | 309 |
| 4 | Doak S. Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee FL | 264 |
| 5 | NRG Stadium, Houston TX | 251 |
| 6 | EverBank Stadium, Jacksonville FL | 247 |
| 7 | Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville FL | 235 |
| 8 | Razorback Stadium, Fayetteville AR | 229 |
Source: Vaisala Xweather Annual Lightning Report 2025 (NFL 10-mile / 30-minute protocol). 325 warning hours is more than 40 working days a year under an active lightning warning.
Built for the people who carry the protocol: directors of golf and superintendents, tournament and event directors, athletic directors, operations and safety chiefs.
The system that monitored every stadium of the 2026 World Cup is in service today, continuously watching lightning across Florida and the Carolinas. We onboard a limited number of venues each month, working directly with the person who owns the lightning protocol; setup is concierge, and live within a week.