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Live Tornado Radar & Severe Thunderstorm Tracker

Beam-aware rotation screening, a four-stage tornado signature pipeline, and per-cell threat vectors — track severe thunderstorms the moment they turn tornadic.

BayouRadar tornado radar showing rotation markers and storm cell threat vectors

Rotation Detection

Beam-Aware Rotation Screening

BayouRadar screens the full radar volume for rotation signatures in real time, accounting for beam height and elevation as the radar scans — not just a single tilt. That beam-aware approach cuts down on false rotation flags you'd get from a naive single-elevation scan.

  • Volume-wide rotation screening, not single-tilt
  • Beam-height aware to reduce false positives
  • Runs continuously as new radar volumes come in
BayouRadar storm-relative velocity overlay used for beam-aware rotation screening

Tornado Signature Pipeline

Four-Stage Tornado Signature Pipeline

Rotation alone isn't a tornado signature. BayouRadar runs a four-stage pipeline that layers velocity, correlation coefficient, and cell structure together before flagging a genuine tornadic signature — the same kind of multi-parameter reasoning chasers and warning meteorologists use, automated on every scan.

  • Four-stage detection pipeline, not a single threshold
  • Combines velocity, dual-pol, and cell structure
  • Flags tornadic signatures as they develop

Per-Cell Threat Vectors

Per-Cell Threat Vectors & SPC Outlooks

Every tracked storm cell gets its own tornado, hail, and wind threat read — so you know which cell in a line is the one to watch. Layer in SPC's Categorical, Tornado, Wind, and Hail Probability outlooks, SPC Watches, and Mesoscale Discussions for the bigger picture.

  • Per-cell tornado / hail / wind threat vectors
  • SPC Day 1 Categorical, Tornado, Wind & Hail Probability
  • SPC Watches and Mesoscale Discussions overlaid live

See rotation the moment it develops

Beam-aware screening, a four-stage tornado signature pipeline, and per-cell threat vectors — free to try, deeper tools on Pro.

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