As Tropical Storm Gordon threatens to become a hurricane this evening and make landfall in Western Florida early Monday, residents along Florida's Gulf Coast will need the most up-to-date weather reports to help prepare for the coming storm. The WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker, the world's first and only real-time mobile Internet Weather Resource Center, will provide coastal residents and weather watchers nationwide with live conditions from the heart of the hurricane through a free desktop WeatherBug tool that can be downloaded from http://www.weatherbug.com.

"The WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker will be an important resource for emergency staff, meteorologists, and communities," said Bob Marshall, President and CEO of AWS, Inc.-the makers of the WeatherBug. "Our real-time weather information helps to better prepare and inform communities facing severe weather, so that loss of life and property can be lessened."

The WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker-a technically enhanced Dodge Durango-is outfitted with an up-to-the-second AirWatch Weather System and an InstaCam web-ready camera. This state-of-the-art equipment, developed by AWS, relays live weather data and images via the Internet to WeatherBug users nationwide. The data is also displayed on large electronic monitors mounted on the truck to enable those at the scene to keep an eye on conditions.

The Live StormTracker is also equipped with two computers, a printer, and Internet access that will be used to receive valuable information on storm track, forecasts and warnings. AWS on-site meteorologists will use the information to brief reporters and emergency management personnel. This type of timely information has never before been available on site, making the Live StormTracker an indispensable resource during severe storm situations.

To see the WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker in action, download the WeatherBug at www.weatherbug.com: user-friendly directions for the free download are posted on the website. Users instantly gain access to data and images from the Live StormTracker, as well as from the over 4,000 AWS neighborhood weather sites that make up the world's largest automated weather network.

**ATTENTION BROADCASTERS: A satellite feed of the WeatherBug VNR will be available on Sunday, September 17 at 4:30-4:45pm ET.

Coordinates are:

• Tel Star 6 - Transponder 14
• Audio: 6.2/6.8
• Frequency: 11966.5 horizontal
• Position: 93.0 W Longitude

AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (AWS) is the world's largest real-time information network providing viewers with up-to-the-second weather, sports and news via the Internet and television broadcast stations nationwide. Established in 1993, AWS is the parent corporation of AWS WeatherBug and WeatherNet. Best known for its innovative Worldwide School WeatherNet, AWS is a recognized leader of pioneering web applications and is a first-in-class, best-in-class high tech publishing enterprise known around the globe.