It serves as a platform for exchange of knowledge about forecasting severe convective storms in Europe and elsewhere.
It aims to raise awareness and provide real-time education about severe weather forecasting.
It also collects reports from the general public about severe convective weather incidents in order to validate its forecasts.
ESTOFEX forecasts are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
The research oriented correlate is the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) which itself is modeled somewhat after the US National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), with both US counterparts enjoying stronger institutional support as long-time governmental entities.