NEXRAD · Level II · 3D

Storms are 3D.
Your radar should be too.

F5 Radar decodes real NEXRAD radar and renders it in true three dimensions — every elevation cut, the whole volume, from any angle. Live from every US site, plus decades of archive. Not a tile overlay.

Radar: KTLX reflectivity · El Reno – Oklahoma City · May 31, 2013

The El Reno supercell rendered in 3D — reflectivity cells towering as a volume over the Oklahoma map

The 3D difference

See the storm, not a slice

Most radar apps flatten a storm to a single tilt painted on a map. F5 Radar decodes every elevation cut and renders them as textured cones — or stacks the full scan into a volume you can orbit and tilt through. Mesocyclones, overshooting tops, and hail cores become something you can actually look at, not infer.

  • Every elevation angle as a textured 3D cone
  • Full volumetric render you can rotate and pitch
  • Velocity couplets and echo tops in three dimensions

What else it does

Serious radar, all the way down

Live, coast to coast

Every US NEXRAD site, with a live edge that keeps building the newest volume radial by radial as the dish sweeps.

Decades of archive

Replay any storm from the public Level II archive, frame for frame and fully reproducible — from historic tornado outbreaks to landfalling hurricanes.

Storm science built in

Model soundings and hodographs, velocity dealiasing and storm-relative motion, and a live GOES-satellite lightning overlay.

The great storms, curated

Landfalling hurricanes, violent tornadoes, and derechos — each with the radar loop pinned to the right site and moment. One tap to the radar.

Warnings that find you

Save the places you care about and get NWS tornado and severe warnings pushed — filtered to exactly the alert types you choose.

Share the moment

Send a link to an exact radar moment. Anyone who taps it lands on the same loop, same frame — in the app, or here in the browser.

Products

The full dual-polarization suite

REFReflectivity VELVelocity SRMStorm-relative ZDRDifferential reflectivity CCCorrelation coefficient KDPSpecific differential phase HCAHydrometeor class EETEcho tops VILIntegrated liquid