Cherokee, Kansas Weather
Cherokee, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cherokee, Crawford County.
Full aviation weather for Cherokee is published on the Atkinson Municipal Airport (KPTS) page, 13 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee: Oswego Municipal Airport (K67) 29 km · Joplin Regional Airport (KJLN) 35 km · Lamar Municipal Airport (KLLU) 46 km · Miami Municipal Airport (KMIO) 49 km · Fort Scott Municipal Airport (KFSK) 50 km
Conditions reported at KPTS describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cherokee specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cherokee.
About Cherokee, Kansas
Cherokee rests on a gentle swell of land, a place where the sky seems to stretch wider than usual, a pale blue canvas brushed with wisps of cloud. It lies 24.3 miles north-west of Joplin, MO (from Joplin, MO: bearing 318°T), and is situated 7.3 miles south-west of Pittsburg. The terrain here is mostly flat, broken only by the subtle contours of fields that unfurl in muted greens and golds under the wide Kansas sun. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries the dry, sweet scent of drying grasses and the faint, earthy perfume of turned soil, a scent that clings to everything like a second skin. Beyond the scattered homes and the quiet streets, the landscape opens into a patchwork of agriculture, the land breathing slow and steady, a patient witness to the turning seasons. This corner of Crawford County, Kansas, carries the deep imprint of its coal mining past, a history etched into the very character of Cherokee. Though the mines have long since fallen silent, their legacy remains, a quiet hum beneath the surface of everyday life. The local economy, now more diversified, still draws strength from the fertile land, with agriculture forming a significant part of its pulse. The rhythm of Cherokee is one of quiet persistence, a place where the past informs the present without overwhelming it, a community that knows the value of hard work and the enduring beauty of a horizon that seems to promise more than it reveals.
Live animated radar for Cherokee 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 | Cherokee, Crawford County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.345887°N, 94.80885°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 66724 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cherokee, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cherokee, Kansas, 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 Cherokee includes coordinates 37.345887°N, 94.808850°W, situated in Crawford County. ZIP code 66724. Telephone area code: 913. 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.
