Live NEXRAD Radar
Level II data for every U.S. radar, about 15 seconds behind real time, plus the archive back to 1991. Reflectivity, velocity, dual-pol views and storm products, all with buttons named in English: Radar, Wind, Debris, Hail Size.
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Radar · Lightning · Rotation · Forecasts · Learning
Your Own Weather Workstation, Right on Windows.
Live NEXRAD radar from every U.S. site, satellite lightning drawn on top of everything, rotation and tornado debris flagged the moment the radar sees them, and GenAvaM, our own model, telling you where lightning is likely next. Then it explains every bit of it in plain English, because a weather nerd is just a curious person who kept asking “but why?”
- ~15 sradar latency
- 61lessons
- 490glossary terms
- 3PCs per account
Windows 10 & 11 (64-bit) · 5 days free · by GenM Software
Lesson Of The WeekWeek Of September 28, 2026How Hurricanes FormTropical Cyclones
Why This Week: It's the first week of October, and we're still inside Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June 1 through November 30. October storms love to spin up close to home in the Gulf and the western Caribbean, so this is a good week to know how a hurricane is actually built: warm water, moist air, low wind shear and a little spin. Don't be like me and only read up when the cone is already pointed at somebody you love. You learn it now, on a quiet week, and you'll read every advisory better when it counts.
Start The Lesson
What It Does
Built for the Moment the Sky Gets Interesting
Hobbyist, storm spotter, teacher or the person who refreshes radar during every thunderstorm: this one is for you.
Lightning, Always on Top
NOAA GOES satellite lightning and a Lightning Jump alert when a storm’s flash rate suddenly climbs. Lightning never hides under another layer. It earned top billing.
Rotation & Tornado Detection
Mesocyclone, strong rotation, tornado vortex signature and tornado debris, each drawn as a ring you can hover for speed, height and distance, with rotation tracks over the last 30 minutes to 2 hours.
GenAvaM Forecasts
Our own model: lightning chance for the next 30 and 60 minutes and a forecast radar out to two hours. It checks itself against real lightning every scan and gets better at your radar over time.
Hurricane Tracking
Active NHC storms with the cone, watches and warnings, spaghetti models, intensity guidance and arrival time of tropical-storm winds at your location.
Education Center
16 units and 61 lessons, college-level ideas in plain language, quizzes, and “Try It in LightningWX” buttons that open the exact tool the lesson is talking about.
Radar in Motion
Watch a Storm Breathe
Smooth motion glides storms between radar scans, so a loop looks like weather instead of a flip book. This is the real KTLX loop of the May 20, 2013 Moore, Oklahoma tornado.
Every U.S. Radar
NEXRAD Level II, about 15 seconds behind real time.
Lightning on Top
NOAA GOES satellite lightning, never buried under a layer.
Rotation & Debris
Mesocyclones, TVS and debris signatures, tracked scan to scan.
61 Lessons
Plain-English meteorology with a Try It button on every lesson.
S.T.E.M. Cells
Tiny Cells Feeding a Weather Brain. Frankenstein, but with Better Radar.
With your OK at install, LightningWX sends small, scrubbed research packets (how well its forecasts verified, detection counts and crash reports) so GenAvaM learns from every radar site at once. No names, no emails, no coordinates, no license keys. You can read every packet in its outbox before it leaves.
Pricing
Buy the Software Once. Add the Full Forecast When You Want It.
Try everything free for 5 days first. If the subscription ever lapses, LightningWX keeps working as Basic Radar.
The Software
$139one time
Yours to keep. Includes Basic Radar forever.
- Basic Radar (Included, View-Only): live reflectivity and velocity for any U.S. radar site (lowest two beam angles, 12-frame loop)
- Live lightning from NOAA GOES satellites
- NWS watches and warnings with alert sounds
- Will It Hit Me? storm arrival and NOAA Weather Radio
- Map layers, the distance tool and Quick Lessons
- Up to 3 PCs on one account
Full LightningWX
Subscription. Pick how often you’d like to pay:
$12monthly
$66every 6 months$11/mo · save $6
Best Value$120yearly$10/mo · two months free · save $24
- Every beam angle, dual-pol views and storm analysis
- GenAvaM forecasts, models and Weather Maps
- Rotation and tornado debris detection, Lightning Jump and Storm Threat Cards
- Hurricanes and tropics, multi-radar mosaic and NWS text products
- Warning Generator, Simulation Mode and the full Education Center
5-day free trial of the full product · free account required · saving, exporting, screenshots, recording and streaming need a paid license (not in the trial) · 2-factor sign-in · checks in every 7 days
LightningWX stands on the shoulders of public science: radar, warnings and models from NOAA and the National Weather Service, satellite imagery from NASA and NOAA, and maps from USGS. Meteorological inspiration and credit: Ava C. Flavell.
