Put live NWS warnings on your stream or in your videos: alert popups, a radar map that jumps to each new warning, a full broadcast layout in one OBS source, and a remote panel so you can run it all without touching OBS. Built for US weather streamers, storm chasers and weather channels.
Stream elements were rebuilt in v0.0.60 and extended in v0.0.63. Use one, or use all of them.
Alert popups
A popup for each new alert. When a warning has a storm motion, it lists the towns in the path and roughly when the storm gets to each.
Auto-zoom map
A radar map that zooms to every new alert on its own. Show it as reflectivity or velocity.
Radar Spotlight
The live warnings radar map from the app, with every active warning drawn on top, available as a stream overlay.
Emergency Takeover
An overlay that takes over the screen for the most serious alerts. You can pause it from the Streamer Remote.
Ticker, counts and SPC risk
An alert ticker with a bar height you can set, running alert counts, and an SPC risk widget.
Socials
An overlay for your social handles, so people know where to find you while the radar is up.
Who it is for
Live streams, chases, channels and videos.
Live storm streams
Warnings on screen as the NWS issues them, with towns in the path and arrival times.
Chase streams
A map that follows each new warning, and a remote you can run from a second screen.
Weather channels
Ticker, counts, SPC risk and a clock in one layout, with a frame that follows the top alert.
Video creators
Alerts are saved locally, so you can review an event and build the recap afterwards.
Elements
Pick what fits your broadcast.
Choose an element in the app and add it to OBS as a source. Click any image to see it full size.
Stream ElementsEvery stream element in one list. Pick what you want for your broadcast.
Map Element: ReflectivityZooms to each new alert automatically.Map Element: VelocityThe same element, showing velocity instead.
Full Stream Overlay
One source, a whole broadcast layout.
The Full Stream Overlay is a complete layout in a single OBS source, with slots for radar, your facecam and extra cameras, plus a built-in alert map, counts, SPC risk, popups, a ticker and a clock. The frame takes the color of the highest active alert. Start from the default template, then add what you want and remove what you do not. There are placement guides, and a Reset to Default button if you get lost.
Default TemplateWhere elements can go. Sources, cameras, facecam and more can all be changed.Customized LayoutA filled-in layout. Add what you want and remove what you do not.
Streamer Remote
Run it live without opening OBS.
The Streamer Remote is a control panel inside StormSync. Pause popups, map auto-jump and the Emergency Takeover, spotlight a particular alert, re-announce or hide one, clear the popups, zoom out to everything, or post a breaking banner. Every alert currently on stream is listed with its own controls.
It can sit in a tab, float, or dock to the side of the window, so it stays handy on a second monitor.
Streamer RemoteControl your stream elements from one panel.
Before you go live
Rehearse, then go.
Use the app's test alerts to see how everything looks. They are never saved, and they are cleared from your stream when you log out. There is also an option for whether a test alert moves your stream map.
After an app restart, your overlays pick up the warnings that are still active.
On air
Good to know.
Alerts come straight from the NWS Weather Wire, the same feed TV stations and emergency managers use.
For official warnings, point your viewers to the NWS. A quick mention on stream or in your description is enough.
Central Feed now runs on a dedicated server built for 24/7 uptime, so the connection is very stable. Any planned downtime is posted on the maintenance page, and you can still use your own NWWS-OI account for a private connection.
More elements, options and polish are coming. The next few updates are mostly about stream tools.
Free use
Free for streamers. Credit is appreciated.
You can use StormSync and its stream elements on your streams and videos at no cost, monetized or not, and you do not have to ask. If you want to say thanks, a mention helps the project more than you would think.
Any simple credit works, for example in your stream description, on a panel, or on screen:
Example credit
Alerts by StormSync VT/OI · stormsyncapp.com
The one rule
Do not copy the elements out.
Customize the elements as much as you like inside the app. What is not allowed is taking a stream element out of the app, copying it, and modifying it somewhere else without my permission. If you want something custom, ask me and we can talk about it.
