The Texas Storm Chasers interactive weather radar features a high-resolution composition dataset. At a regional and national scale, our radar shows a reflectivity composite featuring data from over 130 national weather service and department of defense weather radars. Composite weather radar data usually updates every few minutes.
Zooming in to a sub-region allows for single-site reflectivity data to be displayed. With higher resolution and more frequent updates, our interactive weather radar can show new data more frequently and with less of a time delay. The overlay opacity of the reflectivity data can be adjusted using the slider located within the top-left portion of our radar display.
High-resolution weather radar data is excellent, but our interactive interface has a handy set of tools to use as well.
Full Screen
Tapping the ‘enlarge’ icon will open a full-screen view of the TSC Interactive Weather Radar. Some browsers may open this data within a new tab or window.
Search for a location
Search for a specific address, city, zip code, or place of interest. The radar will center the display over your search location.
Zoom In & Zoom Out
While most mobile devices will allow for an interactive zooming experience, those using non-touch methods can use the ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ buttons to adjust their zoom level.
Animate Data
It allows you to playback the last thirty minutes of radar data. Click the stop button to return to the current time.
Severe warnings
Activate or deactivate the display of severe weather warnings. Flash flood, severe, and tornado warnings fall within this definition.
Other warnings
Display or hide other weather-related products issued by the National Weather Service. Depending on the weather, a variety of products may display, including air quality alerts, heat or cold advisories, river flood alerts, etc.
Surface temperature
Display or hide surface temperature observations. Data is displayed in Fahrenheit from automated weather observation stations (usually at airports or official observation sites) across the world.
Surface wind direction and speed
Display or hide surface wind direction, and surface sustained wind speeds. This data layer indicates the direction the wind is blowing and the sustained wind speed. Gusts may be higher.
Storm Reports
Display or hide local storm reports from the National Weather Service. Storm reports during convective weather can be related to hail size, wind gust measurements, wind damage reports, flood reports, tornadoes, etc. During winter weather events, one might find various snow or ice measurements.
Storm Tracks
Display or hide automatically-generated storm attributes from the National Weather Service radar system. Data can include the direction and speed of a storm, any hail or rotation estimated by the radar, along with a ‘TVS’ (tornado vortex signature).
Note about the ‘storm track’ data: These pieces of data are automatically generated and should not be taken literally in most situations. There is a high false-alarm (cry wolf) rate in particular with the rotation and tornado algorithms. Rely on severe weather warnings for the specific hazards from any given storm. This data is the same used by a majority of other radar software and display systems found on the internet.