About RadarScope
RadarScope is an AMS-award-winning weather visualization tool that empowers meteorologists, public safety officials, storm spotters, and weather enthusiasts to view a full suite of single-site radar data and related...
RadarScope is an AMS-award-winning weather visualization tool that empowers meteorologists, public safety officials, storm spotters, and weather enthusiasts to view a full suite of single-site radar data and related severe weather products. Your initial purchase provides professional radar visualization in a fully native app, free from distracting and invasive practices, with optional subscription packages to add even more capabilities. Whether you’re scanning for a mesocyclone’s tell-tale hook echo, pinpointing the landfall of a hurricane’s eye wall, or identifying velocity couplet, hail spike, or debris ball signatures, RadarScope displays native radar data in its original radial format. You see what the radar sees almost as soon as the radar sees it, with automatic updates every two to ten minutes depending on the radar’s scanning strategy. Your initial app purchase includes the following: . Full suite of single-site radar products for the US, Canada, Guam, Denmark, Finland, and Germany . 6-frame radar loops . Two built-in providers for radar data . Tornado, thunderstorm, flash flood, marine, snow squall, extreme wind, tropical, and other warnings in the US . Selected severe weather warnings in Canada and Australia . NWS-generated storm tracks with hail, TVS, and mesocyclone attributes . Inspector and distance tools . Color palette options for radar data . AllisonHouse data plan integration . Spotter Network integration for storm and location reporting . mPING integration for submitting weather reports to NSSL . Bundled maps with political boundaries, water bodies, and major highways, optimized for low-bandwidth use . Support for widgets and complications . Universal app for Apple platforms, including Apple Watch and Apple TV . Family Sharing support RadarScope Pro Tier One is an optional annual subscription that adds more features for tracking severe weather: . 30-frame radar loops . Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes . Severe weather watches in the US and Canada . Special weather statements in the US and Canada . Mesoscale convective and precipitation discussions . SPC convective, tornado, hail, wind, and fire outlooks . WPC excessive rainfall outlooks in the US . Local storm reports in the US . Custom color palette support . Multi-pane display (2 on phones; 4 on larger devices) . Family Sharing support RadarScope Pro Tier Two is an optional annual or monthly subscription that transforms RadarScope into a more complete visualization tool for a larger suite of weather products, including: . Everything in Pro Tier One . 50-frame radar loops . A third provider for US radar data . NEXRAD Level II radar data for the US with a 30-year historical archive . Historical NEXRAD Level III, super-res, and non-US radar data with a 30-day archive . Historical NWS bulletins with a 19-year archive . GOES East and GOES West satellite products . NSSL’s Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) products . NCEP’s Real-Time Mesoscale Assimilation (RTMA) products . Surface observations . Atmospheric soundings in the US . Hail size, hail probability, and azimuthal shear contours with a 30-day archive . More detailed transportation and satellite imagery maps . Custom color palette support for GOES, MRMS, and RTMA . Server-sent events for radar and warning updates . Cross-platform subscription sharing on up to 5 devices . Family sharing support If you choose to buy a RadarScope Pro subscription, it will be charged to your App Store account. The subscription will be auto-renewed within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the same price you originally paid. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal disabled via your App Store account settings after the purchase. Once purchased, the subscription cannot be canceled during the active subscription period. DTN is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Our privacy policy is available for review at https://www.dtn.com/privacy-policy/ Please visit our web site for more information.
• Fixed missing hail attributes in storm tracks • Fixed missing statement text when using Weather Pulse feed • Fixed incorrect risk level in outlook inspector • Precipitable water in sounding detail view honors metric units setting • Updated RTMA wind palette • Updated some location names
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of RadarScope since it was posted on our website on 2016-10-03 13:45:57.
The latest version is 5.5.5 and it was updated on 2026-05-19 15:25:59. See below the changes in each version.
RadarScope version 5.5.5
Updated At: 2026-03-17
Changes: • Fixed missing hail attributes in storm tracks
• Fixed missing statement text when using Weather Pulse feed
• Fixed incorrect risk level in outlook inspector
• Precipitable water in sounding detail view honors metric units setting
• Updated RTMA wind palette
• Updated some location names
RadarScope version 5.5.2
Updated At: 2025-12-29
Changes: • Fixed a bug that locked up the outlook detail view
• Fixed a bug that prevented switching outlooks in the detail view
RadarScope version 5.4.3
Updated At: 2025-08-18
Changes: Aug 18, 2025
Version 5.4.3
• Fixed an incorrectly sized info button in annotation views
• Fixed incorrect impact tag units
• Fixed some spelling errors
• Fixed several sounding calculation bugs
• Fixed a map drawing glitch on launch
• Fixed a bug that prevented display of German differential reflectivity products
• Fixed a lightning disclosure bug
• Updated some location and radar names
• Updated Level II radar achive source
• Added logging to track down a gesture bug
• Added dual-pol products for KCRI
• Updated Spotter Network location reporting UI
• Adjusted minimum temperature in squared sounding view
RadarScope version 5.4.2
Updated At: 2025-06-09
Changes: Jun 9, 2025
Version 5.4.2
• Added dual-pol products for German radars (data available soon)
• Added arrows to annotation views on macOS as an alternative to the page control
• Added dual-pol products for German radars
• Updated message when trying to import a color palette without a Pro subscription
• Changed font for raw detail view text and replace the button with a segmented control
• Moved raw METAR text from header to body of detail view and changed the font
• Page control in annotation views responds to mouse clicks on macOS
• Removed surface observations layer when running on OS versions that don't support it
• Fixed an error with sounding data
• Fixed washed out images when sharing soundings from macOS
• Improved map performance
• Improved settings list performance
RadarScope version 5.4.1
Updated At: 2025-05-09
Changes: May 9, 2025
Version 5.4.1
• Added FIKAU in Finland
• Added a Merchandise link to the Help view
• Adjusted loop export timing to avoid missed frames
• Removed seconds from time stamp of exported images
• Fixed a bug that signed out of RadarScope accounts
• Fixed a crashing bug when selecting a Denmark radar product
• Fixed a crashing bug when processing map tiles
• Fixed a crashing bug when viewing certain soundings
• Fixed a receipt validation issue for apps purchasd via VPP
RadarScope version 5.3.1
Updated At: 2024-09-23
Changes: Sep 23, 2024
Version 5.3.1
• Added five radars in Denmark
• Added ATOO in Australia
• Added AKRR in Australia (data not yet available)
• Added full date to shared images
• Added watch number to tornado watch titles
• Changed KUEX name from Grand Island to Hastings
• Removed Zero, IA and Burntside, MN from cities
• Updated help text
• Fixed a bug that caused settings controls to disappear on macOS
• Fixed a bug that affected resolution of tiled products
• Fixed a bug that affected line rendering on non-retina displays
• Fixed rendering of custom symbols
• Fixed tint color issues
RadarScope version 5.3
Updated At: 2024-06-12
Changes: Jun 12, 2024
Version 5.3
• Added Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) products for Pro Tier Two and AllisonHouse subscribers
• Added mesoscale discussions for Pro Tier One subscribers
• Added ABAP radar in Brisbane, Australia
• Added dual-pol products for AMAC
• Added and updated CVD-friendly color palettes for single-site radar products
• Optimized data loading and processing tasks
• Optimized polygon animation
• Updated text localizations
• Updated some military base names
• Adjusted downloader to reduce the occurrance of missing tiles
• Corrected text in location menu
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented data from displaying in dual-pane mode
• Fixed a bug in the automatic radar selection algorithm
• Fixed a bug that prevented certain keyboard shortcuts from working in some situations
• Fixed a bug in the radar status feed
• Fixed a crashing bug when entereing multi-pane mode
• Fixed a bug that preventing view composite reflectivity for TDWRs
• Fixed a crashing bug in feed list views
• Fixed a bug that prevented loading certain precip products from the NOAA server
• Fixed a bug that prevented the refresh time stamp from updating
• Test warnings are properly labeled
RadarScope version 5.2.2
Updated At: 2024-02-07
Changes: Feb 7, 2024
Version 5.2.2
• Added KHDC radar (data expected in late March)
• Added spotter name to spotter report detail view
• Added icons for new mPING categories
• Fixed missing storm cell detail items
• Fixed spotter detail view button style on macOS
• Optimized sounding list updates
RadarScope version 5.2.2
Updated At: 2024-02-07
Changes: Feb 7, 2024
Version 5.2.2
. Added KHDC radar (data expected in late March)
. Added spotter name to spotter report detail view
. Added icons for new mPING categories
. Fixed missing storm cell detail items
. Fixed spotter detail view button style on macOS
. Optimized sounding list updates
RadarScope version 5.2.1
Updated At: 2024-01-09
Changes: Jan 9, 2024
Version 5.2.1
. Map no longer moves when switching to a tiled product
. Fixed a bug that prevented the Spotter Network account status from refreshing
. Fixed a bug that prevented VCP from updating when looping
. Fixed a regression that prevented data from refreshing when resuming the app
. Help file and city database corrections
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