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TAF and NDFD Forecasts for Airport Locations - Click on the icons below to obtain a forecast from our gridded forecast database. Click here for a description of elements that appear in the NDFD Aviation Forecast Table.

Aviation Flight Categories (AFC)

Category Ceiling Visibility Icon LIFR below 500 feet and/or less than 1 mile IFR 500 to below 1,000 feet and/or 1 to less than 3 miles MVFR 1,000 to 3,000 feet and/or 3 to 5 miles VFR greater than 3,000 feet and greater than 5 miles MISSING MISSING MISSING .AVIATION /01Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... EXCEPT FOR SOME NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA HIGH ELEVATION MVFR CLOUDS OVERNIGHT...EXPECT VFR MOSTLY CLEAR THRU THE PERIOD...AS HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES OVER THE REGION. FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY... FORECAST CONFIDENCE...MEDIUM TO HIGH. EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION: H = HIGH: TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS. L = LOW: TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL Updated: 901 PM EDT FRI MAY 24 2013 UTC 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 EDT 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 CRW H H H H H H H H H H H H HTS H H H H H H H H H H H H BKW H H H H H H H H H H H H EKN M M M M M M M M M M M M PKB H H H H H H H H H H H H CKB H H H H M M M H H H H H

Forecast Graphics for Ceiling and Visibility

03Z-Cig 04Z-Cig 05Z-Cig 06Z-Cig 03Z-Vsby 04Z-Vsby 05Z-Vsby 06Z-Vsby

Other Graphical Forecast Images

Aviation Guidance Products

GFS LAMP Aviation Guidance

Surface observations (METAR)

Information on METAR reports

List of current METAR observations across the area - raw format, decoded

Past 24 hours of METAR reports for NWS Charleston TAF sites:

Charleston (CRW) - raw format, decoded
Huntington (HTS) - raw format, decoded
Parkersburg (PKB) - raw format, decoded
Clarksburg (CKB) - raw format, decoded
Elkins (EKN) - raw format, decoded
Beckley (BKW) - raw format, decoded

Other obsevation locations:

Point Pleasant (3I2) - raw format, decoded
Buckhannon (W22) - raw format, decoded
Pineville (I16) - raw format, decoded
Sutton (48I) - raw format, decoded

Interactive METAR map (must have Java enabled)

Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs) issued by NWS Charleston

How to read a TAF

NOTE - The Tatical Decision Aid presents an auto-refreshing page with the TAF broken down into forecast parameters, color-coded by severity. Courtesy of the Center Weather Service Unit in Houston, TX.

Nearby TAFs issued by other NWS offices

KHLG - Wheeling, WV
KMGW - Morgantown, WV
KMRB - Martinsburg, WV
KLWB - Lewisburg, WV
KBLF - Bluefield, WV
KLEX - Lexington, KY
KCMH - Columbus, OH
KPIT - Pittsburgh, PA
KDCA - Washington, DC (Reagan)
KIAD - Washington, DC (Dulles)
KROA - Roanoke, VA

All other TAFs

Interactive TAF Map (must have Java enabled)

Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU) Products

Click for Center Weather Advisories(CWA) and Meteorological Impact Statements(MIS) from each center.

Cleveland (ZOB)
Indianapolis (ZID)
Washington (ZDC)

AIRMETs/SIGMETs

(what is an AIRMET and a SIGMET?)

Current AIRMETs and SIGMETs
Convective SIGMETs (what is this?)

Area Forecasts (FA)

Boston area
Chicago area
Miami area
Fort Worth area

Other Links

NWS Aviation Weather Center
Federal Aviation Administration
Air Traffic Publications Library