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Aviation Weather

PLEASE NOTE: This page is provided for informational purposes only. Always obtain a complete briefing from the nearest FAA Flight Service Station prior to departure.

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.

Inner triangles within icon denotes improving or deteriorating flight conditions within the first 3 hours. Outer square denotes flight conditions for the next 4 to 12 hour time period.

Aviation Flight Categories (AFC)

Category	Ceiling	Visibility
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

Forecast Graphics for Ceiling and Visibility

01Z-Cig	02Z-Cig	03Z-Cig	04Z-Cig
01Z-Vsby	02Z-Vsby	03Z-Vsby	04Z-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

KCRW - Charleston WV	text	Tactical Decision Aid for CRW
KHTS - Huntington, WV	text	Tactical Decision Aid for HTS
KPKB - Parkersburg, WV	text	Tactical Decision Aid for PKB
KCKB - Clarksburg, WV	text	Tactical Decision Aid for CKB
KEKN - Elkins, WV	text	Tactical Decision Aid for EKN
KBKW - Beckley, WV	text	Tactical Decision Aid for BKW

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