Best for users with no attention span: Dark Skyĭark Sky has the simplest interface of all the storm tracking apps, but there’s a lot going on under the hood. The base app is plenty powerful at just $9.99, but the company also offers a Tier 2 upgrade for $99 annually that enables a 30-day archive, rotation detection, hail size detection, and multi-device activation. The app is able to layer in more detailed information such as storm total surface rainfall as well as technical data to predict patterns like velocity. While the app’s interface is fairly straightforward, the amount and type of data that Radarscope is able to correlate is quite complex. Radarscope can access data from any NEXRAD or TDWR radar site in United States, Guam, Puerto Rico and South Korea, which is kind of random but powerful for stateside users. This dynamic little app was designed for specifically for storm chasers as well as professional TV meteorologists, which make it a pretty nifty tool for science-minded hobbyists as well.
Best for Semi-Pros: Radarscopeįancy chasing down F5 twisters like Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in the movie? Radarscope is the best app for people who are serious about the dangerous science of storm chasing. With data based on more than a quarter-million personal weather stations, Storm offers the best general storm tracking experience. The base app is free, although Weather Underground does sell in-app subscriptions to remove advertisements as well as offer more advanced features. Storm offers another setting that will generate a text message if precipitation or lightning is found within ten miles of your location. The app will also generate National Weather Service alerts that you can read with the tap of the screen. The full screen radar map can be customized with a wide variety of data that includes surface and Jetstream level winds, earthquakes, fronts, and tropical data. This sweeping radar imagery appears on the main screen along with a twister icon if your geographic area is under a tornado watch or warning.
Best for Amateurs: Storm by Weather Undergroundįirst of all, this is the best-looking weather and storm tracking app on the market with the highest resolution (250m) radar that can generate interactive animations for past, current and future data.
Let’s look at some of the best apps for different kinds of storm trackers. Connectivity is important because weather is constantly changing, and no accurate weather app works offline. See, radar is the best way to determine the size, speed, direction and duration of a storm. The two real keys to success in tracking storms with a mobile app is current radar and cellular connectivity.
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