RadarOmega — Weather Radar App & Weather Station App

01  What Is RadarOmega — and Why Is It Different?

RadarOmega is a professional weather radar application developed by SDS Weather (Storm Damage Services, Inc.) — the same team that created cyclonePort. Available on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux, RadarOmega provides professional-grade weather data tools that go far beyond what consumer weather apps deliver: high-resolution NEXRAD Doppler radar with dual-polarization products, numerical model data (HRRR, NAM, GFS, ECMWF), satellite imagery, SPC convective outlooks, NHC tropical products, MRMS precipitation analysis, and — uniquely — live sensor data and camera feeds from the cyclonePort ground-truth station network.

RadarOmega is not a weather forecasting app. It does not show you a seven-day forecast or a feels-like temperature for general planning. It is a professional storm tracking, severe weather monitoring, and situational awareness platform — the kind of tool that broadcast meteorologists put on air, that storm chasers use in the field, and that emergency managers rely on during active events. With 261,000+ subscribers across five countries, it is a proven platform with a community of professional users that no other weather station vendor has built.

02  The cyclonePort + RadarOmega Integration — Why It Matters

The relationship between cyclonePort and RadarOmega is not an integration between two separate products — it is a native connection between the hardware and software built by the same team, for the same purpose. Every cyclonePort station automatically appears on the RadarOmega map when deployed. There is no separate dashboard login, no API key configuration, no data connector to maintain. The station is simply there, in the app, the moment it comes online.

What You See When You Tap a cyclonePort Station Marker

Tapping any cyclonePort station marker on the RadarOmega map opens a live panel displaying:

• All current sensor readings: temperature, humidity, heat index, dew point, wind speed (sustained and gust), wind direction, barometric pressure and trend, rainfall rate and accumulation, lightning proximity, WBGT (where installed)
• Trend sparklines: direction and rate of change for each parameter over the past hour — not just the current value but whether it is rising or falling and how fast
• Active alerts: any currently triggered threshold alerts for the station, with the threshold value and current reading displayed
• Live PTZ camera feed: the live HD camera stream from the station, with remote pan-tilt-zoom control available to authorized users
• Historical sensor chart: a quick-access chart of the past several hours of sensor history for any parameter

All of this appears alongside the NEXRAD radar loop, NWS warning overlays, and lightning detection that RadarOmega provides — giving the operator the regional storm picture (radar) and the ground-truth local reality (station sensors and camera) on the same screen, at the same moment, without switching apps.

The Ground-Truth Value of Combined Views

The operational value of this combination is clearest in the moments that matter most. A severe thunderstorm warning is displayed on the RadarOmega map. The radar shows the storm cell approaching from the southwest. The operator taps the cyclonePort station at the school or construction site — and sees that wind gusts have already increased to 38 mph, pressure has dropped 4 hPa in the past 30 minutes, and the live camera shows wall clouds on the western horizon. This is not a forecast. This is confirmed, site-specific ground truth — the storm is exactly where the sensor says it is, and the camera proves it. No other platform in the market delivers this combination.

03  RadarOmega Radar Features — What the App Provides

RadarOmega’s radar capabilities are the foundation of the platform — the reason it has 261,000+ subscribers independent of its cyclonePort integration. For cyclonePort customers, these capabilities are what gives the station data its context: what is approaching, how intense is it, how fast is it moving, and how does it compare to what the on-site sensors are already showing.

NEXRAD Doppler Radar

• High-resolution single-site radar: Level 2 and Level 3 products at the highest available resolution — reflectivity, base velocity, storm relative velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, and dual-polarization products for hail and precipitation type discrimination.
• Storm tracks and arrival ETAs: RadarOmega displays projected storm paths with estimated arrival times at specific GPS coordinates — including your facility’s location. An athletic director does not just see ‘a storm is approaching.’ She sees that the leading edge of the squall line is projected to reach her campus gates in approximately 8 minutes. This GPS-point ETA capability is the operational feature that turns a radar visualization into a safety timing tool.
• Velocity and shear indicators: Storm relative velocity products identify rotation signatures within storm cells — the mesocyclone signatures that precede tornado formation. Safety directors and emergency managers use these products to distinguish a straight-line wind event from a storm with active rotation threatening their specific location.
• Hail core identification via dual-polarization: Dual-pol radar products (correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase) allow trained users to identify hail cores within storm cells — distinguishing rain from hail and estimating hail size. For agriculture, construction, and outdoor event operations, knowing whether the approaching storm contains a hail core changes the response protocol entirely.
• Single-site vs. composite views: RadarOmega supports both high-resolution single-site radar (maximum local detail for the radar nearest your facility) and MRMS composite (regional synoptic picture merging all 160 NEXRAD sites). The choice is operational: single-site for analyzing the storm structure directly overhead; composite for tracking a developing squall line 150 miles away.
• MRMS (Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor): The national mosaic product that merges data from all 160 NEXRAD sites into a seamless composite — reflectivity, hail tracks, rotation tracks, and precipitation analysis at 1-km resolution, updated approximately every 2 minutes.
• 3D Radar / Volumetric Radar: Available to Alpha subscribers — the ability to view the full vertical structure of a storm cell, revealing a supercell’s hook echo at multiple altitude slices simultaneously. A professional tool that storm chasers and broadcast meteorologists use for mesocyclone identification.
• Historical radar archive: 7 days for base users; 30 days for Gamma; 90 days for Beta; 10-year storm report archive for Alpha subscribers. Rewind the radar to exactly what was happening at any past moment — essential for post-event analysis and insurance documentation.
• Animated frames: 30 frames for base users, up to 250 frames for Alpha subscribers. The more frames, the smoother and more revealing the animation of storm motion.

Satellite Imagery

• Visible, infrared, and water vapor satellite imagery (Gamma and above) at high resolution, with animation capability. Visible shows cloud cover and structure; infrared shows cloud top temperatures and convective activity; water vapor shows atmospheric moisture transport at mid and upper levels.
• Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM): Real-time total lightning (in-cloud and cloud-to-ground) from GOES satellites, overlaid on radar and satellite — provides the earliest possible lightning signal for approaching storms.
• Mesoscale satellite sectors: High-resolution rapid-scan satellite sectors for active severe weather areas, updated every 30–60 seconds during severe weather events.

Numerical Weather Models

Alpha subscribers access full numerical weather model output directly in RadarOmega — the same model data that professional meteorologists use for forecasting, overlaid on the same map as radar and station data:

• Short-range high-resolution models: HRRR (High Resolution Rapid Refresh, 3-km resolution, hourly updates), NAM3KM (North American Mesoscale, 3-km), RAP
• Global models: GFS (Global Forecast System, 12-km), ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts — the gold-standard global model used by professional meteorologists worldwide)
• Hurricane models: HWRF and HMON during Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclone season
• Model parameters available: Reflectivity, wind speed and direction, precipitation, temperature, dew point, and more — with contour overlay and customization options

Weather Products and Outlooks

• SPC (Storm Prediction Center): Convective outlooks (Day 1 through Day 8) with significant severe hatching, mesoscale discussions, tornado and severe thunderstorm watches
• NHC (National Hurricane Center): Tropical weather outlooks, active tropical cyclone tracks, storm surge watches/warnings, Hurricane Hunter aircraft track data
• WPC (Weather Prediction Center): Excessive rainfall outlooks, winter weather forecasts and Winter Storm Severity Index, WPC surface analysis
• Fire Weather: Fire weather outlooks and weekly drought monitor — critical for wildland fire operations
• NWS storm-based warnings: Real-time tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, flash flood warnings, and all other NWS storm-based products with flash animation and in-app sound alerts

04  Subscription Tiers — Base, Gamma, Beta, Alpha

RadarOmega uses a tiered subscription model that provides progressively more powerful data tools. The base application is available at a one-time purchase price and includes full cyclonePort network access — station sensor data and live camera feeds — alongside core radar functionality. Subscriptions unlock additional data layers and archive depth.

Subscriptions are available as monthly or annual plans starting at $4.99/month. All subscriptions include desktop access (Windows, Mac, Linux). cyclonePort station data and camera feeds are included in the base application — no subscription required to access your station in RadarOmega.

05  RadarOmega as a Weather Station App — Accessing cyclonePort Data

For cyclonePort station owners, RadarOmega is the weather station app — the interface through which all station data is accessed, monitored, and managed. This is not a separate download or a web portal with a different login. It is the same app that professional weather people use for radar and storm tracking, now showing your station’s data natively on the same map.

Station Dashboard Features

• Live sensor display: All current readings — temperature, humidity, heat index, wind speed and gusts, wind direction, pressure and trend, rainfall, lightning proximity, WBGT — updated every second and displayed in a clean, readable panel
• Trend sparklines: Each parameter shows direction and rate of change over the past hour, enabling operators to understand whether conditions are improving or deteriorating — not just what they are right now
• Heat index risk category: NWS danger level (Caution / Extreme Caution / Danger / Extreme Danger) displayed alongside the heat index value — no calculation required by the operator
• WBGT activity category: GHSA/NFHS/NCAA threshold category displayed alongside the WBGT reading where the sensor is installed — the compliance decision is visible without any manual lookup
• Lightning proximity status: Current strike distance and alert status — within threshold / approaching threshold / all-clear — displayed in real time
• Historical chart viewer: Tap any parameter to open a detailed chart of the past hours, days, or weeks — multi-parameter overlay, threshold visualization, and event annotation available
• Active alert display: Any currently triggered threshold alert is flagged on the station panel with the threshold value and current reading — the operator sees not just what the alert says but why it fired
• Live PTZ camera: The live camera stream is available directly within the station panel — and for Alpha subscribers, full remote pan-tilt-zoom control is available from within the app

Multi-Station Network View

For organizations with multiple cyclonePort stations — school districts, municipalities, construction networks, broadcast meteorology departments — RadarOmega provides a multi-station overview on the map: every station appears as a marker showing current conditions at a glance. An athletic director overseeing six school campuses sees heat index at each one simultaneously. An emergency manager sees lightning proximity across a county’s station network. A broadcast meteorologist sees current conditions at every camera and sensor location in the region.

This network view is what distinguishes a weather surveillance network from a collection of individual weather stations. The pattern across multiple locations reveals what a single station cannot: which campus is in the hot zone right now, where the storm impact is greatest, which evacuation routes are experiencing the most severe conditions.

Multi-user organizations can configure role-based access within the cyclonePort Enterprise platform: read-only access for coaching staff and field crews (they see current conditions and receive alerts but cannot modify configuration), administrative access for safety directors and district-level coordinators (they can configure thresholds, manage recipients, and review alert histories), and full system access for designated administrators. This ensures that the people who need weather information receive it — at the right level of detail, without access to configuration settings that only system administrators should control.

06  Cross-Platform Access — Phone, Tablet, and Desktop

RadarOmega is built for the way organizations actually work: the athletic trainer has a phone on the sideline, the safety officer has a tablet in the field, and the operations manager has a desktop browser at a desk. All of these users need the same data, at the same time, from the same station. RadarOmega delivers this with full cross-platform support and account-based sync.

07  Alert System — Push Notifications and Safety Protocols

RadarOmega’s alert system operates at two distinct layers that work together in cyclonePort deployments: NWS-sourced storm-based warnings (the regional picture of approaching threats) and cyclonePort station threshold alerts (the on-site confirmation of actual conditions at your facility). The combination eliminates both false urgency — regional warnings that don’t affect your location — and false security — clear regional forecasts that don’t reflect deteriorating on-site conditions.

NWS Storm-Based Warnings — Regional Situational Awareness

RadarOmega delivers real-time NWS storm-based warnings to all users via push notification — tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, flash flood warnings, and all other NWS storm-based products — with GPS-based delivery (alert fires when a warning polygon intersects your location) or custom location-based delivery (alert fires for any of your saved locations).

• Flash animation: When a warning is active, the warning polygon flashes on the radar map with a bright color — making it immediately visible even in the background of an operations display.
• In-app sound alert: A distinctive audio alert fires when a new warning is issued — distinguishable from standard notification sounds.
• Non-precipitation watches and warnings: Non-precipitation hazards — extreme cold warnings, excessive heat warnings, wind advisories, dense fog advisories — are included alongside storm-based products.

cyclonePort Sensor Threshold Alerts — On-Site Confirmation

Alongside NWS warning notifications, cyclonePort station threshold alerts deliver push notifications, SMS, and email when station sensor readings cross user-configured thresholds — for any parameter, at any value, with any recipient list:

• Heat safety: Alerts at OSHA initial trigger (heat index ≥80°F), OSHA high-heat trigger (≥90°F), and any additional thresholds aligned with GHSA, NFHS, or organizational policy
• WBGT activity thresholds: Alerts at each GHSA/NFHS/NCAA WBGT category boundary — the app tells the operator which category has been entered and what the required action is
• Lightning proximity: Alerts when lightning is detected within a configurable distance (standard: 10 miles) and all-clear alerts when 30 minutes have elapsed since the last strike within the threshold
• Wind safety: Alerts when sustained wind or peak gust exceeds configurable thresholds — crane shutdown, outdoor activity limits, or any operational wind limit
• Wind chill: Alerts when wind chill enters frostbite risk categories
• Pressure trend: Alert when pressure is falling at a rate indicating rapid storm approach
• Time-window scoping: Alert rules can be configured to fire only during specified time windows — practice hours, work shifts, event schedules. A school district can configure lightning alerts to notify athletic staff only between 6 AM and 10 PM on school days, eliminating irrelevant overnight notifications without disabling the alert rule. This time-window control reduces alert fatigue — the single most common reason safety personnel begin ignoring automated alerts — while maintaining full coverage during the periods that matter.

08  RadarOmega vs. Consumer Weather Apps

The weather app landscape spans from consumer general-purpose apps (The Weather Channel, AccuWeather, Weather Underground) to professional storm tracking tools (RadarScope, RadarOmega). Understanding where RadarOmega sits in this spectrum — and why that matters for cyclonePort customers — clarifies why the weather station app choice is not a minor implementation detail.

09  Operational Use Cases — Who Uses RadarOmega

Broadcast Meteorology and Television Weather

RadarOmega is used by broadcast meteorologists for on-air weather coverage — its professional radar products, SPC and NHC integration, and customizable display options provide the data quality that professional television weather demands. For broadcast stations with cyclonePort cameras deployed across their viewing area, RadarOmega provides both the radar context and the live visual ground-truth from those cameras — all in the same platform used for on-air visualization. HD camera feeds from cyclonePort stations can be embedded directly into broadcast coverage.

Emergency Management Agencies

Emergency managers use RadarOmega for regional situational awareness during severe weather events: tracking storm cells across the jurisdiction, monitoring NWS warning issuances, and viewing cyclonePort ground-truth observations from key locations simultaneously. The desktop version is particularly suited for emergency operations centers with large monitor setups. The combination of NEXRAD radar, SPC outlooks, NWS warnings, MRMS precipitation analysis, and cyclonePort station data on a single display provides the complete operational picture that emergency response requires.

School Athletic Programs and Campus Safety

For schools and universities using cyclonePort stations, RadarOmega is the compliance and safety app: the athletic director checks the approaching storm on radar, confirms current WBGT and lightning proximity from the on-site station, views the live camera to see the sky condition, and makes the practice suspension decision — all without switching apps. Push notifications fire automatically when WBGT thresholds or lightning proximity thresholds are crossed, with alert language that tells the recipient what to do, not just what the conditions are.

For school districts with multiple campuses, the multi-station view in RadarOmega shows heat index and lightning status at every campus simultaneously — the district safety officer can see at a glance which campuses are at risk without calling each campus individually.

Storm Chasers and Severe Weather Research

RadarOmega’s professional radar products — Level 2 data, dual-polarization products, storm relative velocity, MRMS rotation tracks, volumetric radar — make it a primary tool for professional and amateur storm chasers. The cyclonePort network provides surface observations from fixed stations along chase routes, giving chasers real-time surface data that supplements the radar picture. The large and active storm chasing community within the RadarOmega user base creates a network effect: when severe weather events occur, extensive community engagement improves awareness of conditions across the affected area.

Construction and Industrial Safety Officers

Construction site safety officers use RadarOmega to monitor approaching weather and confirm on-site conditions from cyclonePort stations simultaneously. The regional storm tracking (radar) combined with the site-specific sensor readings (station data) enables the safety officer to make informed go/no-go decisions for crane operations, outdoor work, and evacuation protocols — with the precise timing and documentation that OSHA compliance requires.

Scenario Examples — RadarOmega + cyclonePort in Operational Use

10  Getting Started with RadarOmega and cyclonePort

For cyclonePort Station Customers

• Download RadarOmega: Available free from the Apple App Store (search ‘RadarOmega’) or Google Play Store. Desktop version available from radaromega.com with any subscription.
• Create a RadarOmega account: Account creation is free. Saved locations and alert settings sync across all devices.
• Enable the cyclonePort network: In the app side menu, confirm that cyclonePort Network is toggled on (it is enabled by default). Your station markers will appear on the map immediately.
• Configure alerts: In the cyclonePort Enterprise interface, configure threshold alert rules for your station — heat index, WBGT, lightning proximity, wind speed, pressure trend. These alerts fire as push notifications in RadarOmega on mobile and as in-app alerts on desktop.
• Subscribe for additional data: The base application includes cyclonePort station data at no subscription cost. Gamma, Beta, and Alpha subscriptions add satellite, model data, extended radar history, and deeper archive access. Starting at $4.99/month.

For RadarOmega Users Considering cyclonePort

If you are already a RadarOmega subscriber and want to add on-site sensor data and live camera feeds from your facility, cyclonePort is the exclusive ground-truth station network for RadarOmega. Deploying a cyclonePort station adds sensor readings, heat index and WBGT calculations, lightning proximity alerts, and HD PTZ camera access — all appearing natively in the RadarOmega interface you already use. No new app, no new login, no separate dashboard.

Contact cyclonePort to configure a station for your facility. Most deployments go from contract to live data in RadarOmega within 2–4 weeks.

11  Platform Specifications

Feature availability and pricing may change. Visit radaromega.com for current subscription options.

12  Frequently Asked Questions