Baron Weather has announced two new products, which it will showcase at Meteorological Technology World Expo 2026 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands this week: Flood Finder, an AI-powered flash flood modeling solution; and Fortress, a line of solid-state weather radar.
Baron says Flood Finder delivers basin-level flood guidance on demand, anywhere in the world, in as little as five to 10 minutes, at resolutions as fine as 10m. It models water depth, velocity and direction rather than flood extent alone.
Baron cited the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as saying flash floods are responsible for nearly 85% of flood-related fatalities worldwide, and said that traditional flood modeling can take hours.
The new system combines real-time radar precipitation estimates, a high-resolution numerical weather prediction model and a physics-trained AI flood model, and delivers results in formats such as GeoTIFF.
Baron says that Flood Finder was validated through retrospective reconstructions of the 2024 Dubai flooding, Hurricane Helene, the 2025 flash floods in Kerr County, Texas, and Tropical Cyclone Alfred. It says the solution supports the WMO’s Early Warnings for All initiative.
Jon Tarleton, VP of Integrated Weather Systems at Baron Weather, said, “Flood Finder provides street-level guidance on where water will go, how deep it will get and how fast it will move, while there’s still time to act on it.”
Baron’s new line of solid-state weather radar Fortress is available in C-band and S-band configurations. Baron says the radar hardware and its Baron Prism processing software are supplied as a complete package. The radar runs Baron ClearScan, an AI-powered algorithm that removes non-meteorological clutter such as ground returns, buildings and cellular interference.
The transmitter uses gallium-nitride (GaN) technology. Reliability features include field-replaceable GaN amplifier modules, so the radar keeps running if one needs service; built-in system monitoring; and no high-voltage components or consumable tubes. Baron said its Progressive Pulse Compression Plus (PPC+) implementation, developed with the University of Oklahoma, eliminates the near-range blind spot common to solid-state systems.
Tarleton said, “With Fortress, we’re not asking agencies to choose between performance and reliability. Solid-state gives them both, in a system built to keep running even if a single component needs service. It’s another way we back agencies with the full Baron ecosystem, implementing whichever transmitter technology best fits their environment.”
Fortress C-band is available now, and the S-band version will be available in 2027.
Baron Weather will showcase its portfolio of solutions at booth C12 at Meteorological Technology World Expo 2026, will is taking place at the RAI Amsterdam in the Netherlands on October 6-8.
Register for your expo pass here.
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