Pro radar that runs the broadcast, too.
Everything WSV3 does for a streamer. Built new in 2026 on a modern engine. Runs native on Apple Silicon and Windows. Nobody sits at the desk.
You just watched the product work. That feed above isn't a mockup — it's a simulated preview of exactly what Aura Radar Pro puts on your channel, 24 hours a day, with nobody in the chair. Broadcast-quality 24/7 weather stream in a box, for any gaming PC or Apple Silicon Mac.
A home-base stream running while they're out chasing.
Local-weather enthusiasts who've always wanted their own channel.
Community media outlets that need a broadcast without a control room.
On Twitch or YouTube who want a channel that earns watch time while they sleep.
This is what your subscribers see.
LIVE
YOUR LOGO
Over 5,000 unique viewers so far — more than 90% of them watching on a TV. Your channel, on the big screen, all night.
The director never sleeps.
Everything WSV3 does for a streamer, rebuilt from scratch for 2026. Aura Radar Pro's AI camera makes the calls a human producer would make — it just never clocks out. It flies to storms, dwells on detail, patrols quietly when the sky is calm, and comes home the second severe weather clears. AI auto director drives the camera 24/7 — WSV3 needs a human on the mouse.
AUTO-DIRECTOR · LIVE
No operator. No schedule. No excuses.
Event-ranked director logic prioritizes tornado > severe thunderstorm > flash flood > tropical > watch. 30-second refresh cadence on active tornado warnings — matching WSV3's fastest tier — dropping to a courteous 2-minute cadence when the sky is calm.
LiveScan-equivalent, without the price.
Real-time NEXRAD Level-2 reflectivity and velocity from all 197 active CONUS radar sites — Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico included — with optical-flow interpolation so motion never jumps. Brand new architecture: a Python data engine plus a GPU renderer (Godot 4). No 2010-era Windows Forms, no DirectX 9, no manual refresh. The map is a broadcast product, not a data viewer — it looks like TV.
A cinematic map, not a toolkit.
Day/night terminator with three twilight bands, NASA night-lights, a water shimmer shader, and bloom on storm cores from 30–65 dBZ — a warm gold glow where lesser radar products just show a flat color ramp. Sun position is computed from real UTC time.
CONUS · NATIONAL VIEW
Your logo. Your stream.
Drop a watermark.png in the radar_data folder and your bug appears bottom-right at 72% opacity, aspect preserved, live-reloaded with no restart. Underneath it, a layers panel with 40+ toggleable, broadcast-tuned data layers. Every pro tool lives in the same window as the stream — no second app, no OBS scene juggling.
LAYERS PANEL · 40+ TOGGLES
Every layer, on or off, at runtime.
Hail overlay (MRMS MESH, five tiers), echo tops, rotation history heatmap, TVS couplet icons, 4,251 live surface stations, RTMA temperature raster, county lines, highways, airports, range rings — persistent preferences, no restart required.
The one thing nobody else has: AFD.
The on-duty NWS meteorologist's own forecast discussion, scrolling live across the bottom of the screen — auto-selecting the WFO for the top warning, refreshed every 30 minutes. No other radar product surfaces this at all.
Plain-English storm cards, too.
640×320 storm context cards auto-mirror sides, tint by event type, and translate the polygon into plain English — "SPIN-UP TORNADO RISK," peak hail size, peak echo top, motion speed, and ETA to the next named city.
MIAMI-DADE · BROWARD, FL
Sleep mode. Same map, easier on the eyes.
A melanopic-low ember grade shifts color temperature from 2200K to 2700K overnight while a chroma signal mask keeps storm cores fully readable. Drag the handle to see the transition.
A cinematic soundscape. No other radar has audio at all.
AudioDirector layers 10 ambient pads, air layers, 11 motifs, rain beds, and thunder cracks that respond to what's on screen — with Dark Sky Mode and Torrential Mode for the biggest storms. Music and rain can be switched off entirely.
Replay: real Sept 2026 storms, rendered on-air.
Aura Radar Pro is already live on YouTube 24/7 — 60–90 concurrent viewers and growing, with zero unplanned outages across the 48-hour soak before release.
The monitor wall. Everyone else, side by side.
Every other radar product sells a toolkit for meteorologists. Aura Radar Pro sells a finished broadcast channel.
| Monitor | Aura Radar Pro | WSV3 Core | WSV3 Pro | GRLevel3 | RadarScope Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $199 / $29 mo | $100 | $400 | $200 | $10/mo |
| Turn-key stream | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Auto-director | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Cinematic look | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| AudioDirector | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| AFD ticker | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Bloom on cores | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Custom watermark | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Storm cards | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| LIVE STORM chip | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Sleep mode | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Real Level-2 velocity | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Hail / echo tops | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| METAR stations | ✅ (4.2k) | ❌ | ✅ (8k+) | ❌ | ✅ (limited) |
| Placefiles + KML/KMZ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Storm attributes table | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Timeline scrub | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Telestrator | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| ProbSevere v3 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| 4-panel view | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Native macOS | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Dual-pol storm view (REF beside SRV) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 | ✅ |
| Dual-pol products (CC / ZDR / KDP) | ✅ | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Automatic possible-debris flag | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| MRMS hail swaths (24 h / 60 min) | ✅ | ❌ | 🟡 | ❌ | 🟡 |
| MRMS rotation tracks (4 h) | ✅ | ❌ | 🟡 | ❌ | 🟡 |
| SPC / NWS storm reports on map | ✅ | ❌ | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ |
| GOES satellite under radar, 1-min | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | ❌ | 🟡 |
| NWS 7-day forecast on air | ✅ | ❌ | 🟡 | ❌ | ❌ |
| National forecast maps + SPC Day 1–3 | ✅ | ❌ | 🟡 | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Future radar (labelled model) | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Storm tracker with town arrival times | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 |
| Colour-blind-safe palettes | ✅ | ❌ | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ |
| OLD RADAR stale-data flag | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| GLM lightning + timed thunder | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Storm Mode (Off / Auto / On) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Hourly show (spoken rundown) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Voice warnings + top-of-hour recap | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Live broadcast captions | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| YouTube chat forecasts | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Auto Shorts | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Vertical 9:16 output | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Sponsor lower-third kit | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Discord warning + stale-data alerts | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Space weather + aurora segment | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Storm story card from NWS text | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| SPC outlook post draft | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Native Apple Silicon + Windows | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 |
✅ has it · 🟡 partial · ❌ not offered. Competitor features checked against vendor documentation, October 2026.
The pro toolset.
Everything a WSV3 power user reaches for, in one window, with a mono key next to each one.
Storm Attributes Table
Every active warning ranked: type, county, motion, rotation, hail, minutes left. Click a row, the camera flies there.
Timeline Scrub
Drag back through the loop, pause, step, snap back to LIVE.
Placefiles, KML, KMZ
Any GRLevelX placefile or KML URL: spotter feeds, chaser positions, mesoscale discussions — in-app manager. Placefiles work. Paste the same URLs you use today.
Telestrator
Draw on air: pen, arrows, cold fronts, warm fronts, drylines. Strokes fade or pin.
ProbSevere v3
NOAA machine-learning severe probabilities as live storm outlines with PS, TOR, HAIL numbers.
Probe Readout
Hover for dBZ, lat/lon, nearest city, nearest METAR.
4-Panel View
National plus the three worst storms, each with its own camera.
Color Science
NWS Classic, Broadcast, Mono, or build your own palette.
Dual-pol storm view
Reflectivity beside storm-relative velocity on tornado-warned storms.
Possible-debris flag
Low CC and near-zero ZDR in rotation, labelled “a signature to check, not a report”.
MRMS hail swaths
24-hour and 60-minute.
MRMS rotation tracks
4-hour.
Storm reports
Tornado, hail and wind reports from SPC and local NWS, marked preliminary.
GOES satellite under radar
IR or visible, with 1-minute imagery during storm visits.
Storm story card
A plain-English summary built only from the NWS warning text.
Colour-blind-safe palettes
For radar, velocity and every engine image.
Radar timestamp in every view
Radar over 30 minutes old is flagged OLD RADAR.
Accuracy from the source
Towns, times and storm motion come only from the NWS warning. Arrival times use true ground distance.
Plus everything already on the page: auto director, AFD ticker, cinematic map, AudioDirector, sleep mode, storm context cards.
Forecast, broadcast, and built to run.
- Official NWS 7-day forecast on air for roll-call cities, home and visit markets, and any extra cities.
- 7-day forecast desk between storms.
- Forecast block in the hourly show, plus forecast pages in the ticker.
- National forecast maps: highs, lows, rain chance, SPC Day 1–3 outlook and rain totals.
- Whole-country future radar run, always labelled as a model.
- “When it reaches you” cards with rain and storm arrival times by town and time zone.
- Storm tracker: path with 15-minute marks and town arrival times, from NWS warning motion.
- Storm Mode (Off, Auto, On): locks onto the worst storms, with a badge and ticker page. It never overwrites saved settings.
- YouTube chat forecasts: viewers type a city and get an on-screen forecast, read aloud if voice is on.
- Chat corner card airs during ordinary warnings without taking the camera.
- Live broadcast-style captions: pop-on pages that never cover cards.
- Space weather and aurora segment: Kp, NOAA G/S/R scales, the aurora oval and the best states to see it.
- Hourly show: a spoken rundown with feature cards, the camera following each place named.
- Daily SPC outlook post draft for you to review. Nothing is posted automatically.
- Data-stale alerts to Discord.
- Audio mixer: music, rain and voice sliders with ducking, and voice-hours limits.
- Fair airtime: forecasts, floods and tropical alerts take turns. Tornado-tier warnings still take the screen at once.
Built to run.
- Upgrade over a running copy: the app closes itself, updates and relaunches, with settings and licence kept.
- The installer detects downgrades and same-version repairs and asks first.
- Old leftover copies are cleaned up safely, and nothing installs into a stale folder.
- Uninstall keeps your settings by default. You can choose to remove data or release your licence seat.
- “Deactivate this computer” in the app frees a seat for another machine.
- Mac: licence agreement screen on first launch, Uninstall in Settings > Account, and Start at login.
- Windows: Start with Windows on by default.
- Settings are backed up automatically before every upgrade.
- Settings window with a left rail: Display, Map, Radar, Alerts, Audio, Director, Hourly show, Forecast, Stream, Account, Health, Advanced.
- Clean map: crisp vector borders, smooth zoom-faded city names, pin your own town, fewer on-screen boxes.
- Storm panel: threat tags, time left, hazards and Up Next.
- Smooth in heavy scenes: about 500 draw calls where it used to be about 32,700.
- Recovers on its own: the engine recovers from bad downloads, voice survives restarts, and the hourly show never repeats an hour.
Draw on air.
Press D and draw on the live radar while you stream. Cold fronts, warm fronts, drylines, arrows, freehand pen — right on the map, on air. Strokes fade on a timer or pin until you clear them. No second app, no OBS scene juggling.
Pen, arrow, fronts — right on the map.
It runs the whole channel now.
Aura Radar Pro runs a hands-off 24/7 weather channel — auto Shorts, a live vertical feed, voice alerts, lightning. Every feature is a simple toggle in Settings. No account, no API key.
Auto Shorts
Tornado warning? Aura Radar records a 45-second vertical clip for you, ready for YouTube Shorts and TikTok.
Saves to Movies (Mac) / Videos (Windows) → Aura Radar Shorts. You upload it — nothing posts automatically.
Settings > Shorts > Auto ShortsVertical output
Go live in 9:16 alongside your main stream. A second window follows the storm, built for Shorts and TikTok Live.
MAIN · 16:9Voice alerts
A broadcast-style voice reads every new tornado, severe thunderstorm, and flash flood warning.
Top-of-hour recap: a spoken national summary every hour on the hour.
Plays through system audio — add Desktop Audio in OBS to include it.
Settings > VoiceLive lightning + thunder
Real GOES satellite lightning strikes flash on the map and fade with age. Thunder rumbles timed to each strike's distance.
Ten more reasons to leave it running.
All toggles live in Settings, off by default unless noted. Nothing here needs an account or an API key.
Threat callouts ON BY DEFAULT
Official NWS tags on screen: Tornado Observed, Tornado Emergency, PDS, hail size by name ("2.75 in, baseball"), wind gusts.
Discord alerts
Paste one link and warnings post to your Discord server automatically.
Settings > DiscordSponsor kit
Sell sponsor slots: drop logos in a folder and they rotate on a lower-third.
Settings > Sponsor slotHome market
Pick your city. Stay national and check in on it every few minutes, or park on it between storms.
Settings > Home marketThreat timeline
Shows which towns a storm hits next, with arrival times.
Settings > Threat timeline barTerrain maps
Three terrain map styles: Shaded Relief, Color Terrain, Natural Earth II.
Settings > Terrain packRadar smoothing
Pick Smooth, Sharp, or Raw radar rendering.
Settings > Filter RAdvanced graphics
4x anti-aliasing for cleaner warning boxes and lines.
Settings > Advanced graphicsRefined city labels
Bigger, cleaner city names with even coverage coast to coast.
Settings > Refined city labelsCinematic tilt BETA
The camera tilts into a 3D view when it dives on a storm.
Settings > Cinematic tilt (beta)UNDER THE HOOD
Built to stream around the clock without engine-level stops.
Every dive frames the warning at a consistent, readable distance — never zoomed into blurry pixels.
Each panel shows 250–900 km around its storm, text stays normal size, the overview shows the full continental US, and cards never cover panels.
Lightning draws efficiently for long unattended runs.
The settings panel scrolls fully at any window size.
The license panel shows your lifetime key.
COMING SOON
What a control room usually costs.
Plain comparison, no invented figures — just the price table, applied.
WSV3 PRO
- Plus a human at the desk running it
- A toolkit for meteorologists, not a channel
- No auto-director, no AudioDirector, no AFD ticker
AURA RADAR
- And nobody in the chair
- A finished broadcast channel, turn-key
- Auto-director, AudioDirector, AFD ticker, storm cards, all included
Four steps. Then it runs itself.
Install
One-click first-run setup on Windows or Mac. No config files to hand-edit.
2 MINDrop your logo
Drag watermark.png into radar_data/. It appears bottom-right, live-reloaded, no restart.
10 SECPoint OBS at it
Add it as a source in OBS Studio (free) or any RTMP encoder. That's the whole setup.
1 MINGo live
Hit go on YouTube or Twitch. The auto-director, HUD, and AudioDirector take it from here.
FOREVEROn air. Pick your license.
Windows 10/11 (RTX 3060+, i5 8th gen+/Ryzen 5 3rd gen+) or macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon recommended, Metal renderer). 25+ Mbps upload, OBS Studio free, one-click first-run setup.
Aura Radar Pro Lifetime
- v1.x lifetime updates, perpetual license
- v2 is a $99 paid upgrade when it ships
- Runs on your own PC or Mac — no cloud fees
- All headline features, full layers panel
Aura Radar Pro Monthly
- All versions forever, including future majors
- Priority support
- Cancel anytime
- Same broadcast, same director, same HUD
Every Pro tool included. No tiers. No add-ons.
By purchasing you agree to the Terms of Use. Creator license only — Media Organizations require a Broadcast License.
Put Aura on your air.
TV stations, radio, newsrooms and media companies run Aura Radar Pro under a Broadcast License: a 24/7 weather channel, on-air severe-weather segments, or a live stream for your digital audience.
Commercial broadcast rights, or a custom build in your station's branding.
Pricing by request.
Built by one developer who ships.
Aura Radar Pro is built by Chris Davidson — VP of AI at the Dallas Mavericks, 20+ years of software engineering — and yforest LLC, his indie software studio.
Watch the channel this software runs, right now.Point it at OBS. Hit go. Walk away.
Broadcast-quality 24/7 weather stream in a box. No datacenter, no cloud, no monthly data fees — just your gaming PC or Apple Silicon Mac, doing the job of a small station's control room.