VORTEX Storm Intelligence vs Weathervane

VORTEX is real-time severe weather intelligence for the United States — tornado warnings, live radar, and NWS-powered alerts in one fast, focused app. WHAT YOU GET • Live NWS alerts — tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, and winter warnings the moment they're issued, mapped to your exact location. • Tornado tracking — follow active tornado warnings with storm-motion projection: the funnel's path, 15/30/45-minute lead points, and a detail card with bearing and speed. • Live radar — smooth animated radar on a clean dark map, plus satellite, snow, wildfire, and earthquake layers. • Risk scoring — a real-time severe-weather risk score for your home and saved locations, built from CAPE, shear, and storm-relative helicity. • Multiple locations — track home and the places that matter to you. BUILT ON OFFICIAL DATA VORTEX is powered by the National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA, and the Storm Prediction Center — the same sources emergency managers rely on. CRITICAL ALERTS FOR LIFE-SAFETY Tornado warnings can reach you even when your phone is silenced or in Do Not Disturb, so a life-threatening warning is never missed. You're always in control of which alerts break through. VORTEX PRO Upgrade to VORTEX Pro for push notifications, phone-call alerts for tornado warnings, cache prewarming, and unlimited saved cities. Purchases are handled securely on the web at vortexintel.app. VORTEX is designed for storm season in the United States. Stay aware. Stay safe. VORTEX Pro is an auto-renewable monthly subscription ($5.99/month after a 14-day free trial). Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase; the subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Weather apps got greedy. Subscriptions for radar. Ads on the forecast. Accounts to see if it will rain. Weathervane is the opposite: everything, for $5.99, once. RADAR THAT RESPECTS YOU Smooth, animated NOAA radar — the past two hours plus a 30-minute nowcast. Scrub it by hand or let it play. No trial wall between you and the storm, and if data ever goes stale, the app tells you instead of pretending. THE SENTENCE YOU ACTUALLY NEED "Light rain starting in ~15 min." Minute-scale rain forecasts for exactly where you stand — when it starts, when it stops. And honestly worded: every sentence is cross-checked against two independent forecast systems, and when they disagree, Weathervane says "possible" and shows you the probability instead of inventing false precision. WARNINGS, INSTANTLY Tornado, severe thunderstorm and flood warnings drawn live on the map the moment the National Weather Service issues them, with watches and advisories shaded beneath. Save home, the cabin, the kids' school — flip the bell and your phone checks in the background and notifies you when a warning covers a place you care about. MORE LAYERS THAN APPS TEN TIMES THE PRICE Forecast rain totals out to 72 hours. Snowfall, past and forecast. Temperature, wind and drought. Live river flow. Ocean wave heights. Active wildfires and smoke plumes. Tap anywhere and one popup reads out every active layer at that exact point, with an interactive forecast chart. A REASON TO OPEN IT ON CLEAR DAYS Sky Tonight scores the stargazing where you stand — light pollution, moon phase, and each night's cloud forecast — and watches NOAA's space-weather feed so you get an aurora alert when a geomagnetic storm can actually reach your latitude. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN Widgets with current conditions and the rain sentence, and a Live Activity countdown when rain is minutes away. WHAT WEATHERVANE DOESN'T HAVE — ON PURPOSE - No subscription. Ever. $5.99 buys every feature and every future update. - No ads. Not even in a "free tier." There isn't one. - No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to leak. - No trackers. Your location goes to the National Weather Service, not to advertisers. We run no server and hold no data about you. Weathervane is built by the small team behind Snoflo, on the same federal data pipelines that power our forecasting site and eight outdoor apps. Severe-weather coverage is for the United States; radar and forecasts work worldwide. Weathervane is not an official warning service — always heed Wireless Emergency Alerts and local authorities.