Severe Weather Guardian

Severe Weather Guardian helps you stay ahead of severe weather with official alerts, Live Radar, critical weather notifications, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and plain-language storm intelligence for the places that matter most.

Track SPC outlooks, excessive rainfall outlooks, fire weather outlooks, tropical products, mesoscale discussions, National Weather Service alerts, live radar, hazards, conditions, and forecasts in one focused severe weather app.

Weather Guardian introduces what we believe is the world’s first accessible live weather radar experience designed specifically for VoiceOver. Live Radar makes radar more understandable for people who are blind or low vision, while staying clear, visual, and practical for everyone.

Live Radar goes beyond a traditional radar image. Multi-scan severe weather analysis helps identify storm motion, hail potential, rotation clues, possible tornado debris signatures, best-effort hook echo clues, and other severe storm indicators. Storm tracks, severe clues, and tornadic indicators are clearer visually and fully supported with VoiceOver. When a tornado debris signature is detected, Weather Guardian can provide a best-effort debris height estimate.

Radar Coach explains radar details in plain language, while Touch Explorer lets VoiceOver users explore storms, warnings, hail clues, tornado indicators, hook echo indicators, storm tracks, and radar context by touch. Radar-only clues are not official confirmation.

Customizable widgets give you faster access to weather information. Home Screen widgets show conditions, hazards, and forecast details, while Lock Screen widgets focus on active and expected hazards. Widgets use your current location by default and can also use saved alert locations.

Save alert locations and receive push notifications for weather threats. One free saved location is included for critical National Weather Service warnings.
Weather Guardian also warns you when a searched location is outside NWS coverage, including the United States and its territories.

With permission, Critical Alerts can break through Do Not Disturb and Silent Mode for life-threatening weather, including Tornado Warnings, Destructive Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, significant Flash Flood Warnings, Tsunami Warnings, and Extreme Wind Warnings.

Weather Guardian includes onboarding and permission explanations for notifications, Critical Alerts, and location access, plus VoiceOver improvements across widgets, radar, storm clues, and onboarding.

Weather Guardian Plus unlocks Live Radar, additional saved alert locations, and expanded alert categories, including National Weather Service watches, advisories, special weather statements, outlook-based alerts, and more.

Feature Highlights

Search severe weather outlooks by city, state, or current location.

View SPC convective outlooks, including hail, wind, and tornado probabilities.

Check excessive rainfall, fire weather, tropical threats, and active mesoscale discussions.

Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for conditions, hazards, and forecast details.

Use Live Radar with Radar Coach, Touch Explorer, storm motion indicators, active warnings, improved storm tracks, and severe storm clues.

Explore radar with VoiceOver summaries, spoken hail and tornado details, hook echo indicators, tornado debris clues, and best-effort debris height estimates.

Save alert locations, configure alert categories, and receive push notifications.

Receive Critical Alerts for life-threatening weather that may require immediate action.

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Weather Guardian alerts, radar summaries, radar clues, hook echo detection, tornado debris height estimates, and weather guidance are best-effort and are not a replacement for NOAA Weather Radio, Wireless Emergency Alerts, emergency services, official National Weather Service warnings, or public safety instructions.