The corporation has developed storm-tracking technologies like shear markers and SCITS, as well as the Baron Tornado Index (BTI),[3] which ranks a storm’s tornadic potential on a scale between 0-10.
In the mid 2010s Baron introduced the Lynx system which has a superset of the previous tools' functionality.
Baron partners with Sirius XM to generate and distribute weather data for aviator, mariner and motorist use.
A wide variety of data is available coast-to-coast wirelessly via the Sirius XM signal.
[4][5] The company was founded by former Huntsville television meteorologist Bob Baron, who worked for WAAY-TV and WAFF in the 1980s and 1990s.