St. Helena, Nebraska Weather
St. Helena, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for St. Helena, Cedar County.
Full aviation weather for St. Helena is published on the Chan Gurney Municipal Airport (KYKN) page, 16 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. 3 airfields within reach of St. Helena 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 St. Helena: Hartington Municipal Airport / Bud Becker Field (K0B4) 23 km · Harold Davidson Field (KVMR) 26 km
Conditions reported at KYKN describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at St. Helena specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for St. Helena.
About St. Helena, Nebraska
St. Helena unfolds across the rolling Nebraska plains, a quiet sentinel where the sky stretches vast and unbroken. It lies 48.1 miles west-north-west of Sioux City, IA (from Sioux City, IA: bearing 297°T), and is situated 8.6 miles east-south-east of Yankton. The land here is a study in subtle gradients, where fields of corn and soybeans give way to stands of cottonwood and elm, their leaves rustling like ancient whispers in the prevailing breeze. Sunlight, when it breaks through the clouds, casts long, golden shafts across the fertile soil, illuminating the persistent green of summer crops and the deep, earthy tones of the cultivated earth. The air itself carries a clean, dry scent, a mixture of sun-baked earth and the distant promise of rain, a constant companion to the slow, deliberate pulse of life in this open country. The story of St. Helena is one of hardy pioneers who found their foothold on this prairie, drawn by the promise of land and the chance to build a life from the ground up. Its economy has long been tethered to the bounty of the soil, with agriculture remaining the bedrock of its existence, its cycles dictating the rhythm of the year. While no grand monuments mark its past, the enduring spirit of those who settled here is palpable, a quiet resilience etched into the very character of St. Helena. The occasional grain elevator, a stoic silhouette against the horizon, stands as a testament to generations of farmers who have coaxed sustenance from this generous, yet demanding, landscape.
Live animated radar for St. Helena 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 | St. Helena, Cedar County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 42.80972°N, 97.248942°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68774 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This St. Helena, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St. Helena, Nebraska, 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 St. Helena includes coordinates 42.809720°N, 97.248942°W, situated in Cedar County. ZIP code 68774. Telephone area code: 402. 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.
