Severe Weather Guardian

Severe WeatherGuardian makes severe weather easier to understand with accessible Live Radar for VoiceOver, clear radar context for everyone, official weather alerts, saved alert locations, forecasts, widgets, tropical tracking, NOAA Weather Radio streams, and plain-language storm intelligence.

Radar should not require perfect vision or expert training. Severe WeatherGuardian starts with accessibility, then keeps the rest of the app practical: official alerts, readable forecasts, saved places, and severe weather context that helps you understand what is happening before, during, and after a storm.

Live Radar

Live Radar is built to make radar more understandable. VoiceOver users can explore the radar map by touch, while sighted users get the same clear storm context without needing to decode every radar color, product, or warning polygon.

With VoiceOver Touch Explorer, the radar map becomes a touchable description surface. Tap across the map to hear the radar layer at that point, followed by nearby warnings, warning details, and decoded storm clues.

Simple and Advanced Radar Modes

Use simple radar focuses for storms, warnings, rain, flooding, and severe storm clues. Advanced users can inspect reflectivity, velocity, hydrometeor classification, rainfall, echo tops, and storm overlays.

Live Radar can highlight severe storm clues such as storm motion, hail potential, damaging wind, rotation clues, hook echo indicators, possible debris clues, and storm tracks.

Official Alerts and Saved Places

Save alert locations and monitor the places that matter to you. Severe WeatherGuardian supports National Weather Service warnings, watches, advisories, and more.

One free saved location is included for critical National Weather Service warnings. Severe WeatherGuardian Plus unlocks additional saved alert locations and expanded alert categories.

With permission, Critical Alerts can break through Do Not Disturb and Silent Mode for life-threatening weather you choose to monitor, including Tornado Warnings, Destructive Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, significant Flash Flood Warnings, Tsunami Warnings, Extreme Wind Warnings, and Snow Squall Warnings. Critical Alerts are controlled by iOS permissions and your app settings.

Official Weather Context

Search by city, state, or current location to check current conditions, seven-day forecasts, SPC severe weather outlooks, hail, wind, and tornado probabilities, WPC excessive rainfall outlooks, fire weather outlooks, active SPC mesoscale discussions, tropical products, and National Weather Service alerts.

Severe WeatherGuardian uses public products from NOAA, the National Weather Service, the Storm Prediction Center, the Weather Prediction Center, and the National Hurricane Center when available. Some radar descriptions and local summaries are derived from official products by the app.

Tropical, Radio, and Widgets

Follow active tropical systems with official cone, track, wind, watch, warning, and local risk summaries when available.

Listen to available NOAA Weather Radio streams.

Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets to keep conditions, hazards, forecasts, and expected threats glanceable. Widgets can use your current location by default or a saved alert location.

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Severe WeatherGuardian alerts, radar summaries, radar clues, hook echo indicators, tornado debris clues, debris height estimates, storm guidance, local summaries, and weather notifications are best-effort planning and awareness tools. They are not a replacement for NOAA Weather Radio, Wireless Emergency Alerts, emergency services, official National Weather Service warnings, or instructions from public safety officials.