Computer hardware and software for receiving and displaying weather data and for providing the same to remote users for graphical display; weather tracking and display system, namely, computer hardware and software for directly manipulating weather data; weather warning system, namely, computer hardware and software that automatically receives, interprets, and transforms weather warnings and weather watches issued by governmental agencies and transmits them in graphical form, with graphical mapping information; electronic zoom-in software for computer-based apparatus that provides the capability to visually zoom-in and pinpoint roads and intersections as displayed on a viewing screen of the computer-based apparatus in conjunction with graphically displayed weather-related information; computer software and hardware for processing weather data and projecting storm locations, movement, speeds, characteristics and estimated time of arrival of storms; computer hardware and software for sending and displaying weather information via a global computer network; computer software and hardware for generating and displaying domestic and global three-dimensional weather models and for displaying two-dimensional and three-dimensional weather graphics, namely, static and in-motion weather graphics for communicating current and developing weather conditions and forecasts, from the three-dimensional weather models