The gust at the airport is not the gust that took the roof off
Add WIND to a Tessera HAIL site and the same record carries the wind: measured at the property by validated partner instruments, on the same clock as every hailstone.
VALIDATED PARTNER INSTRUMENTSSAME SITE · SAME CLOCK · SAME RECORD
What the wind did, at the address itself
These are the readings a wind claim turns on, a parametric cover pays on, and a site team simply wants to know. Taken at the address rather than the nearest airport, they stop being estimates, and they land on the same record as the hail.
- SUSTAINEDWind speed at the site, over time
- GUST PEAKThe maximum, and the second it happened
- DIRECTIONWhere it came from when it hit
- DURATIONHow long the site stood in it
A WIND SPEED WITHOUT A PLACE AND A TIMESTAMP IS TRIVIA. YOURS COMES WITH BOTH.
The wind at your site is usually read from somewhere else
Ask what the wind did at a building and the answer usually comes from one of two places. The first is the nearest official observation — very often an airport, which can be many miles from the building, sited over open ground, with its own exposure and its own terrain. The second is a modeled gust field: a surface interpolated across a region, useful for understanding a storm, thin as proof of what one roof endured.
Both are inferences about your site made from data collected somewhere else. Wind is local. It accelerates around a corner, funnels down a street, lifts over a parapet and drops on the leeward slope. A gust recorded at the airport and the gust that lifted your roof covering are two different events that happen to share a storm.
It’s the same argument we’ve always made about hail, applied to a peril where the instruments already exist and are already excellent. Put a proven instrument on the property and record what actually passed over it. Whether you’re settling a claim or deciding when to send a crew up, you stop negotiating over which distant station to believe.
We did not set out to reinvent the anemometer
Hail needed new hardware because nothing on the market measured impact energy where it landed. Wind is the opposite situation. Cup and ultrasonic anemometers have been refined for decades by manufacturers whose entire business is measuring air. Their instruments are calibrated, certified to recognized meteorological standards and proven in the field.
Building a competing anemometer would take years and produce something no better. So we integrate instruments that already work, validate them in our own deployments, and say plainly whose hardware produced which number.
What we add is the part nobody else is doing: putting wind on the same measured record, at the same site, on the same clock as hail. One storm, one address, one record — not a hail reading from an instrument on the roof and a wind figure from an airport twenty minutes down the highway.
THE INSTRUMENT IS THEIRS. THE SITE, THE CLOCK AND THE RECORD ARE OURS.
What Tessera WIND records
Four quantities, recorded at the property, on the same clock as the hail. Wind rarely arrives alone: the storms that drop damaging hail carry damaging gusts. The instruments’ own performance figures belong to their manufacturers, and their documentation is where to find them.
MEASURED QUANTITIES, NOT BORROWED NUMBERS
| Requires | A Tessera HAIL site. WIND is an add-on to it. |
|---|---|
| Measured quantities | Sustained wind speed, gust peak, wind direction and event duration — recorded at the site, not at the nearest airport. |
| Timestamping | Every reading is timestamped on the same clock as the hail record at the same address, so one storm produces one timeline rather than two accounts of it. |
| Instrumentation | Validated instruments from established meteorological manufacturers. Each record names the instrument that produced it, never a generic “sensor”. |
| Integration partners | Thies Clima · OTT/LUFFT · Lambrecht (AEM). |
| Performance figures | Accuracy, measurement range, sampling and certifications are the instrument manufacturer’s and are published in their documentation. We do not restate them here. We state what was measured, by which instrument, and when. |
| Siting | At the property itself, typically on the same roof, yard or pole as the site’s Tessera HAIL. |
EVERY WIND READING ON THE RECORD NAMES THE INSTRUMENT THAT TOOK IT.
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Put the wind on the same record as the hail.
Tell us where your sites are and what you need the wind for, whether that’s a claim, a parametric cover or simply knowing. We’ll show you what adding it to a Tessera HAIL site looks like.
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