# NOAA Weather Unofficial: Radar > NWS Radar, Alerts & Forecast Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6771460673](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6771460673) ## Overview - **ID:** `id6771460673` - **Platform:** Apple - **Type:** Apple app - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** Kyle Nelson - **Category:** Weather - **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (5 ratings) - **Version:** 1.12.4 - **Last updated:** 2026-09-13 - **First published:** 2026-05-22 - **Size:** 3.67 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-09-19 - **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noaa-weather-unofficial-radar/id6771460673) - **Privacy policy:** [https://nelsok-dev.github.io/noaa-weather-privacy/](https://nelsok-dev.github.io/noaa-weather-privacy/) ## Description 3-hour NEXRAD loops, SPC storm outlooks, severe alerts, and the full area forecast discussion — the raw NWS products, not a summary of them. Free, no ads, no account. Most weather apps show you a model's guess. This one shows you what the National Weather Service actually issued — including the forecast discussion your local meteorologist wrote by hand, twice a day. No ads. No account. No tracking. Free. WHAT YOU GET HERE AND ALMOST NOWHERE ELSE • 3-hour radar loops — where most apps give you the last 30 minutes • The Area Forecast Discussion in full: your NWS office's own reasoning, unedited • Climate records for your city, in many places back to the 1800s, and how today compares • A 14-day outlook — a full week past where the NWS forecast ends • SPC convective outlooks, with mesoscale discussions as they're issued • 12 raw NWS text products — storm reports, fire weather, winter statements, flood outlooks, daily climate reports, record reports • Four radar products and six satellite products, not one of each • Every reading credited to the station that measured it, with distance CLIMATE & RECORDS • Is this hot for September? See today's high and low against the 1991–2020 normal, and the all-time record with the year it was set • Are we behind on rain? Month-to-date and year-to-date rainfall with the departure from normal • How much snow so far? Season totals against normal, all winter • How long since it rained? Dry streaks counted from daily records • Sourced from the NWS Climatological Report and the Regional Climate Centers — the same figures your local office publishes RADAR • Live NOAA RIDGE2 NEXRAD — the same feed meteorologists use • Base Reflectivity, Storm Layer, Storm Tops, and Precipitation Type • 1, 2 or 3-hour loops with ½× to 4× playback and a drag-to-scrub timeline • Watch a line of storms actually organize, instead of guessing from one frame • Adjustable overlay opacity SATELLITE • Animated GOES-East imagery via NASA GIBS/Earthdata • GeoColor, Infrared, Visible, Air Mass, Dust, and Fire Temperature • Track smoke, dust and fire hot spots, not just clouds NWS ALERTS • Push notifications when NWS issues a watch, warning or advisory for you • Set your own severity threshold and quiet hours — no waking up for a dense fog advisory • Alerts follow where you actually are, not a city you looked up • Interactive alert map, filterable by warning, watch and advisory • No account required, no tracking STORM CENTER • SPC convective outlooks — Marginal through High risk • SPC mesoscale discussions • Area Forecast Discussion, Hazardous Weather Outlook, Local Storm Reports, Special Weather Statements, Zone Forecasts, Fire Weather, Winter Weather, Flood Outlooks, Climate Reports and Record Reports — the raw text, straight from your office FORECAST & CONDITIONS • 7-day NWS forecast with highs, lows and conditions • 14-day outlook for the days beyond it, clearly marked as model guidance rather than an NWS forecast — we tell you which is which • Hourly timeline • Temperature, feels-like, wind, humidity, dew point, pressure, visibility and UV index • Air quality from EPA AirNow MARINE & TIDES • NOAA CO-OPS tide predictions • Buoy observations, swell and wave height • Coastal Waters Forecast WIDGETS • Six sizes, including three Lock Screen widgets • Current temperature, conditions, high/low and an active alert indicator PRIVACY • No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics • Your location is used to fetch your forecast — never stored, never sold WHO IT'S FOR Pilots, boaters, farmers, storm spotters, and anyone who has ever wanted to know why the forecast changed — not just that it did. Built for people who read the discussion before they trust the icon. DISCLAIMER This is an independent third-party app. It is not created, endorsed, or affiliated with NOAA, the National Weather Service, or any U.S. government agency. ## Rankings - #431,740 — Overall ## Similar extensions and apps - [Echoes Weather: Radar & Models](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6756086497) — 4.80 / 5 - [Live Weather Forecast & Radar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6443482067) — 4.60 / 5 - [Weathora: Weather & Radar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6790104827) - [FrankWeather Radar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6790366022) - [EverythingWeather](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6736664582) — 4.80 / 5 - [NOAA Weather Radar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id486059426) — 4.50 / 5 - [NWS Weather Report](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6477846406) — 4.80 / 5 - [RawWeather](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6780361706) — 5.00 / 5 - [Free NOAA Weather™ Live Map](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6776394490) — 4.40 / 5 - [NOAA Radar US](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id415411639) — 4.80 / 5 - [Weather Live Radar - NOAA](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6781655348) — 4.00 / 5 - [National Weather Forecast Data](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1249694161) — 4.60 / 5 --- Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6771460673)