Spotter Tools Pro: Storm Radar

Description

Spotter Tools Pro is a severe weather app for weather enthusiasts, storm chasers, and trained spotters. GPU-rendered NEXRAD radar, live wind flow, soundings, lightning, satellite, worldwide tropical, air quality, five forecast models, IBW alerts, live chasers, and thousands of live cameras. Spotters and chasers also get Spotter Network reporting, a GPS beacon, Chaser Mode, and opt-in Presence. Buy once. No subscription, no ads, no third-party trackers. SPOTTER NETWORK REPORTING, DONE RIGHT! Tornado, funnel cloud, wall cloud, hail, measured wind, flood, flash flood, and damage, each with the exact fields Spotter Network expects. Reports queue offline and auto-upload. GPS BEACON Foreground and background beacon to Spotter Network. Configurable interval and encrypted credentials. RADAR: LEVEL 2, LEVEL III & TDWR GPU-rendered and crisp at any zoom. Single-site Level 2 decoded on-device: Reflectivity, Velocity, Correlation Coefficient, Spectrum Width, and Storm-Relative Velocity. Plus WSR-88D Level III, dual-pol (ZDR, CC, KDP, HCA), derived products (VIL, Digital Precip Rate, rotation), storm tracks, mesocyclone and TVS markers, a VAD Wind Profile, and the 45-site TDWR network. Add a Mesoanalysis layer (SPC-style severe parameters) and a Storm Cell Deep Dive. Dual-view split-screen compare. 16 .pal color tables, or import your own. ANIMATED & COMPOSITE RADAR Loop recent volumes (play, scrub, speed). Add a GPU-crisp CONUS MRMS mosaic drawn from the full product catalog, including the FLASH flash-flood suite, with up to 12-hour playback and tap-to-read values. LIVE WIND & SOUNDINGS Animated surface-wind flow, speed-colored particles streaming live. Plus on-device skew-T soundings, hodographs, and full analysis: tap anywhere for a profile (balloon or HRRR). LIGHTNING, SATELLITE & TROPICAL Live GOES GLM lightning; GOES East and West satellite (Infrared, Water Vapor, Visible, GeoColor) with a radar-synced cloud loop; and worldwide tropical: outlook areas, storm cones, spaghetti tracks, intensity, and wind-arrival times. WEATHER MODELS Overlay HRRR, GFS, RRFS, NAM, and ECMWF guidance (reflectivity, temp, wind, CAPE, precip) with a time bar and legend. OBSERVATIONS & LAYERS RTMA surface observations (temperature, dew point, theta-e, wind, gusts), MRMS observed precipitation, METARs, EPA AirNow air quality, and WPC surface fronts and pressure centers, all on the map. LIVE STORM CHASERS Watch major chasers stream live via YouTube and Facebook Live, right on the map. Live badges show who's on air. LIVE TRAFFIC & SKY CAMERAS Tens of thousands of DOT cameras across 37 states, plus FAA, Windy, NOAA buoy, USGS volcano, NPS, ALERTWildfire, and curated webcams. Live video where offered, stills elsewhere; fullscreen, facing-aware, source picker. SMART PUSH ALERTS Background NWS warnings with a polygon preview. Filter modes: Standard, Outbreak, and PDS/Emergency only. Watch zones: current location, home, city, state, or nationwide. Severe-alert tone, plus optional Critical Alerts so a Tornado Emergency or PDS warning sounds through silent mode and Focus. Each warning shows an estimated population inside the polygon. NWS & SPC ON THE MAP - 50+ NWS warning polygons, toggleable - Tornado and severe thunderstorm watch boxes - SPC Mesoscale Discussions and WPC flood discussions, full text on tap - Outlooks: convective Day 1 to 8, thunderstorm, excessive rainfall, fire weather, winter storm severity, CPC 6 to 10 day, drought - SPC storm reports plus the live Spotter Network feed MORE City and place search, long-press map menu, distance and bearing tools, freehand drawing, storm-track projection, and control chips. Optional account and opt-in Presence to see other users on the map. Per-event colors, county and state lines, 6 themes (OLED black). Privacy Policy: https://spottertoolspro.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://spottertoolspro.vercel.app/terms Support: [email protected]

Spotter Tools Pro 1.0.57 This update covers everything since 1.0.54, so there is a lot here. THE FULL NWS FORECAST, ANYWHERE YOU TAP • Long-press the map, use the map menu, or search a city to pull the complete National Weather Service forecast for that exact spot. • Current conditions from the nearest airport station, an alert banner when something is active, and the day and night periods in the forecaster's own words. • A 48 hour trend chart over an hour-by-hour strip you can tap through. • The Area Forecast Discussion, so you can read the local office's reasoning without leaving the app. • Every grid layer that office publishes for your spot, including thunder probability, mixing height, transport wind, wet bulb globe temperature and the Haines index. Tap any value for a plain English explanation. • The last forecast stays readable when you lose signal. HOME SCREEN WIDGET • Put the forecast for any place on your home screen. Choose the location, show the next few hours or the next few days, and match it to the app's theme or pick your own. • An optional strip appears when a warning or watch covers that spot. • It refreshes on its own, and holds onto the last good reading if an update fails. • Requires iOS 17 or later. The app itself still runs on iOS 15. The widget offers My Location plus any place you have opened a forecast for, so pull up a forecast somewhere once to make it available. NEW FORECAST MODELS • AIFS 25km, the ECMWF AI Forecast System, 6 hourly out to 15 days. • GEFS Mean 50km, the ensemble average, 6 hourly out to 16 days. It is the mean of the whole ensemble rather than a single run, so read it as the middle of the road rather than a specific outcome. • Model products are now grouped into categories you can expand, instead of one long list. RADAR • Long loops load noticeably faster, and on newer phones frames decode in parallel. • Tapping a storm cell during playback now reads the frame you are looking at rather than the latest scan, and the readout moves above the crosshair when the loop bar is in the way. • Outlooks joined the quick layer switcher in the bottom corner. • Radar and model layers now paint on top of outlook shading instead of underneath, so your echoes stay visible when outlooks are on. • The two radars are now named for what they are, Single Site and National, rather than the feed behind them. • Panning during playback no longer stutters. FIXES • Model layers no longer show a stale run after the app sits in the background. • Warning notification map previews load faster and more reliably.

Information

Seller

DUSTIN GARNER

Category

Weather

Version

1.0.57

Requires

iOS 15.0+

Size

146.4 MB

Age Rating

4+