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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 /14Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AFTER EARLY MORNING MVFR/IFR VIS BURNS OFF...MAINLY VFR FCST IN VERY WARM AND SOMEWHAT HUMID AIR MASS. THERE WILL BE A CUMULUS FIELD SAT...MORE SO FOR EASTERN SITES VERSUS WEST. EKN AND BKW WILL SEE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING...OTHERWISE GENERALLY A QUIET DAY WEATHER-WISE ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. LIGHT FLOW SAT WILL START NE AND GRADUALLY VEER TO SE. FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 12Z SUNDAY... FORECAST CONFIDENCE: HIGH ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: TIMING AND DENSITY OF FOG/REDUCED VISBYS THIS MORNING MAY VARY. 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: 1012 AM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012 UTC 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 EDT 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 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 H H H H H H H H H H H H PKB H H H H H H H H H H H H CKB H H H H H H H H H H H H

Forecast Graphics for Ceiling and Visibility

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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

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