Coval is a boutique meteorology firm built on a simple idea: when a wrong weather call costs real money, you want a human in the loop, not a database pushing the same auto-generated forecast to every customer in the zip code.
Coval produces three things: site-specific forecasts before severe weather arrives, real-time alerts while it's happening, and radar-verified damage reports the morning after. Each one is built for a specific operational decision: whether Thursday's pour is safe, whether to activate a hospital's disaster plan, where to deploy adjusters first, or whether a storm actually crossed a given job site.
Every briefing we produce starts from the same raw inputs the National Weather Service uses: high-resolution weather radar observations, surface measurements, satellite imagery, and numerical weather models. It ends with a person making a judgment call about what it all means for you.
On the storm data and insurance side of the practice, Coval's staff brings together three disciplines that rarely share an office: operational meteorology, forensic data analysis, and software engineering. That combination is what makes our damage reports defensible at the street level and our forecasts precisely tuned to the decision you're making.
Some of our team members have also worked directly inside insurance companies: on claims desks, in CAT response, and alongside reserves teams. That experience gives us a sharper sense of what makes a report useful in practice, what kinds of data and documentation hold up during a claims dispute, and what concerns actually keep a claims VP or an operations lead awake at night.
On the operational forecasting side, our team brings the same focus to site-specific work. We don't produce generic forecasts for a viewing audience. We build guidance that answers exactly the question you asked us, and we stand behind the answer with a phone number.
Most commercial weather services resell access to the output of someone else's model. Every buyer gets the same auto-generated forecast, the same canned alert, and the same generic report as every other customer on the same plan. When the system shifts and the forecast starts diverging from reality, nobody picks up the phone.
Coval takes the opposite approach. Every briefing we send is prepared by a forecasting team that knows your site, your schedule, and the decision you're trying to make. Our technology (the radar pipeline, the US-calibrated damage model, the alerting infrastructure) is the reason one firm can serve many clients at that standard. It is not a replacement for the human in the loop.
When the forecast doesn't match the sky, we pick up the phone. That's the product.
Coval is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, in the middle of one of the most active severe weather corridors in the country. Hail, high wind, tornado, flood, hurricane: every mode of severe weather we forecast for our clients, we also see out our own windows.
We deliver forecasts, alerts, and post-event reports for clients from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic seaboard, and from the Gulf Coast up through the northern plains. If severe weather affects your operation, we can work with you, regardless of where your sites are located.
Coval works with a small number of clients at a time. If your operation hinges on a weather call, whether that's a Thursday pour, a Friday game, a Monday claims queue, or a full-book underwriting review, we'd like to hear from you.