Story City, Iowa Weather
Story City, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Story City, Story County.
Full aviation weather for Story City is published on the Ames Municipal Airport (KAMW) page, 22 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 Story City 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 Story City: Boone Municipal Airport (KBNW) 26 km · Webster City Municipal Airport (KEBS) 36 km · Iowa Falls Municipal Airport (KIFA) 41 km · Ankeny Regional Airport (KIKV) 55 km · Marshalltown Municipal Airport (KMIW) 56 km
Conditions reported at KAMW describe the airfield itself. Weather 22 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Story City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Story City.
About Story City, Iowa
Story City unfolds across gentle swells of Iowa earth, a place where the horizon feels vast and the sky a boundless canvas. It lies 10.6 miles north of Ames, IA (from Ames, IA: bearing 7°T), and is situated 5.0 miles west-north-west of Roland. Fields of emerald corn and golden soybeans stretch to meet the hazy blue, their neat rows a testament to the patient hand of agriculture that shapes this land. The air here, especially in the early morning, carries a clean, crisp scent of dew-kissed soil and distant woodsmoke, a subtle perfume that clings to the senses. The occasional cluster of mature oak and maple trees punctuates the landscape, their leafy canopies offering fleeting moments of shade before the open prairie reclaims its dominance, a soft, rolling sea of green under the ceaseless eye of the sun. The history of Story City is deeply entwined with the immigrant spirit that settled these fertile grounds, a narrative whispered in the sturdy brick facades of its downtown buildings and echoed in the names of its founding families. Its economy, once more reliant on the railroad that still hums through its outskirts, now finds its pulse in the surrounding farms and a growing collection of small businesses that lend a quiet vibrancy to its streets. The annual Scandinavian Days festival, a riot of colorful folk costumes and the hearty aroma of kringle, is a particular jewel in Story City's crown, a vibrant celebration that brings the heritage of its people to life with a boisterous, joyful energy, a reminder of the enduring stories that continue to be written here.
Live animated radar for Story City 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Story City, Story County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 42.187206°N, 93.595771°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 50248 |
| Area Code | 515 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Story City, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Story City, Iowa, 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 Story City includes coordinates 42.187206°N, 93.595771°W, situated in Story County. ZIP code 50248. Telephone area code: 515. 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.
