Whelen Springs, Arkansas Weather
Whelen Springs, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Whelen Springs, Clark County.
Full aviation weather for Whelen Springs is published on the Gurdon Lowe Field (K5M8) page, 11 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Whelen Springs have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Whelen Springs: Kizer Field (K4F7) 22 km · Dexter B Florence Memorial Field (KADF) 30 km · Harrell Field (KCDH) 41 km · Stephens Ouachita County Airport (K4F8) 44 km · Hope Municipal Airport (KM18) 51 km
Conditions reported at K5M8 describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Whelen Springs specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Whelen Springs.
About Whelen Springs, Arkansas
Whelen Springs breathes a quiet persistence beneath the wide Arkansas sky. It lies 46.7 miles south of Hot Springs, AR (from Hot Springs, AR: bearing 185°T), and is situated 6.4 miles south-south-east of Gurdon. The land here rises and falls in gentle swells, cloaked in a verdant tapestry of pine and oak, the air thick with the scent of damp earth and sun-warmed needles. Small clearings reveal homesteads and barns, their weathered wood echoing the patient passage of seasons. The terrain, not dramatic but subtly contoured, suggests a place where water, when it comes, runs clear and swift through shallow ravines, feeding the thirsty roots of ancient trees. Dusk here is a slow descent of color, the western horizon bleeding from pale gold to bruised lavender, casting long, inky shadows that stretch like sleeping giants across the fields. The history of Whelen Springs is etched not in grand monuments but in the enduring spirit of its people and the land they have worked. For generations, the fertile soil has yielded crops, sustaining families and forming the backbone of the local economy, a quiet agriculture that persists against the pull of larger towns. The faint hum of machinery from distant fields at harvest time is a familiar sound, a lullaby of sustenance. The springs themselves, the namesake of this place, are a subtle blessing, providing a constant, cool murmur that has been a source of life and a quiet gathering point for as long as anyone can remember, a small, vital artery in the heart of Clark County.
Live animated radar for Whelen Springs and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Whelen Springs, Clark County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 33.830939°N, 93.126279°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71743, 71772 |
| Area Code | 870 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Whelen Springs, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Whelen Springs, Arkansas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Whelen Springs includes coordinates 33.830939°N, 93.126279°W, situated in Clark County. ZIP code 71743, 71772. Telephone area code: 870. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
