StormBase
NOAA/NWS Product Viewer
$0.99 · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
StormBase is a one-time $0.99 purchase, with no nonsense subscriptions or recurring fees. It helps you track high-impact weather and space weather in one clean, fast app. Built around official NOAA and NWS products*, StormBase brings forecast outlooks, live alert maps, status feeds, and technical tools into a single workflow so you can check what matters quickly and with context.
Whether you are a weather enthusiast, spotter, pilot, forecaster, or emergency-focused user, StormBase is designed to reduce tab-hopping and keep core U.S. weather intelligence organized, current, mobile friendly, and easy to interact with.
Features:
- SPC coverage in one place: Day 1-8 convective outlooks, fire weather outlooks, watches, mesoscale discussions, local storm reports, partner regional graphics, and experimental guidance.
- WPC products: PMD discussions, Excessive Rainfall Outlooks (Day 1-5), QPF Day 1-7 and multi-day totals, plus an interactive surface analysis viewer.
- CPC outlook suite: 6-10 and 8-14 outlooks, monthly/seasonal outlooks, drought outlooks, and Hazards products including Day 3-7 composite Hazards
- SWPC space weather view: SWPC alert messages and forecast scales, X-ray trends, solar probabilities, sunspot/solar region data, and numerous solar imagery loops.
- GOES satellite imagery: East/West selection, multiple sectors (including mesoscale), multiple bands, and animated loop playback.
- U.S. Alerts dashboard: National alerts map plus grouped active warnings, watches, and advisories with search, filters, and sort options.
- Radar network status: Monitor radar site health, see outage/status messaging, and search/filter stations quickly.
- Soundings archive browser: View observed radiosonde products by station, date, and cycle and sounding climatology.
- Historical Events browser: NOAA SWDI historical weather events with year/month/day drill-down, event type filtering, impact sorting, metadata, and narrative views.
- NWS local forecast tools: saved U.S. locations with point forecasts, hourly graphs, active alerts, local storm reports, AFD summaries, office graphics, and recent observation history.
- NWS WFO Text Products: Browse WFO AFD/CLI/CLM/CLA bulletins by office, quick-jump search to specific WHO and product, plus ADM/ADA administrative messages.
- SPC Mesoanalysis viewer: layered SPC mesoanalysis products in a dedicated in-app browser.
- SPC Archive tools: browse archived convective outlooks, archived MCDs, archived watches, archived mesoanalysis, and archived preliminary storm reports, including historical images and report tables.
- Observations + models: MAG observations, sector/product/cycle loops, SKEWT, and MAG model guidance with run comparisons.
- Aviation Weather Center Products: METAR/TAF search plus a native AWC graphics viewer for aviation weather products.
- iCloud sync across devices for app favorites, WFO saved locations, Live Mesoanalysis products and presets.
- Favorites and quick access: Pin frequently used products and jump back fast.
- Customizable layout: Configure menu destinations and viewing preferences for your workflow.
- Time and refresh controls: Local/UTC display options and foreground refresh behavior.
- Built-in glossary and references: Meteorology terms and source attribution directly in app.
- Privacy-minded design: No ad SDKs, no profiling analytics, and locally stored preferences/caches.
Widget Suite:
Favorites widget, SPC Outlook widget, Radar Status widget, WFO Bulletin widget, Situational Summary widgets (Home Screen + Lock Screen)
Widget highlights:
At-a-glance severe weather metrics including max SPC risk, watches, MCD status, U.S. alerts, storm reports, flare level, tornado/wind/hail probabilities, next Day 1 outlook timing, and biggest active alert.
Data and attribution:
StormBase uses official public weather/space-weather sources including NOAA/NWS/NCEP centers (SPC, WPC, CPC, SWPC, AWC).
*StormBase is not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA/NWS.
- Added iCloud sync across devices for app favorites, WFO saved locations, and Live Mesoanalysis products and presets.
- Bug fixes and optimizations.
The developer, Abdullah Sheikh, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Abdullah Sheikh
- Size
- 31.3 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Downburst Tip $4.99
- Microburst Tip $9.99
- Shower Tip $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026, Abdullah Sheikh