Live radar · NOAA NEXRAD network
The real radar, not a screenshot of it.
This is the National Weather Service's own NEXRAD doppler network, drawn as live map tiles: the same returns the TV stations color in. Zoom to your neighborhood, play the last hour, and watch where the storm actually is, not where a headline says it might be.
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Reading it in ten seconds. Greens are light rain, yellows are heavier, reds are intense, and purples
usually mean hail or extreme cores. Radar shows precipitation, not warnings; a violent storm can be minutes
ahead of its echo. For the official word on your area, check the
Storm Center, and always follow local officials.
Radar tiles: NOAA NEXRAD composite via the Iowa State University Mesonet public tile cache, typically about 5 minutes behind the live sweep. Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO. Animation frames span the last 50 minutes. This page is informational and is not an emergency alert service.