Panola, Oklahoma Weather
Panola, Oklahoma — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Panola, Latimer County.
Full aviation weather for Panola is published on the Wilburton Municipal Airport (KH05) 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. 5 airfields within reach of Panola 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 Panola: Stigler Regional Airport (KGZL) 42 km · Arrowhead Airport (K91F) 45 km · Mc Alester Regional Airport (KMLC) 52 km · Robert S Kerr Airport (KRKR) 55 km
Conditions reported at KH05 describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Panola specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Panola.
About Panola, Oklahoma
Panola lies in a landscape that remembers the slow churn of ancient waters and the patient work of wind. It lies 55.8 miles south-west of Fort Smith, AR (from Fort Smith, AR: bearing 236°T), and is situated 5.5 miles east of Wilburton. Rolling hills, softened by centuries of grass and scattered oaks, give way to the more insistent contours of creek beds, their banks a tangle of blackberry and dewberry vines. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a humid sweetness, a scent of sun-baked earth and blooming wildflowers that clings to everything, from the weathered clapboard of houses to the broad, flat leaves of the cottonwood trees lining the low-lying areas. The sky overhead is a vast, ever-shifting canvas, prone to dramatic cloud formations that can cast fleeting shadows over the gentle slopes, giving the land a sense of deep, quiet breathing. The history of Panola is bound to the land’s fertility and the promise of a livelihood wrested from it. Once, the primary hum of activity here was the cultivation of cotton, a crop that shaped the fortunes and the very character of the settlement, its rhythms dictating the pace of life through generations. Though the agricultural landscape has changed, with cattle grazing now a more common sight on the pastures, the legacy of that earlier era lingers in the stoic endurance of the people and the enduring sense of place. The narrow, winding roads that connect Panola to its neighbors still feel like arteries carrying the lifeblood of a community that has always understood the profound connection between hard work, the land, and the quiet satisfaction of a life lived close to the earth.
Live animated radar for Panola 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 | Panola, Latimer County, Oklahoma |
| Coordinates | 34.92871°N, 95.213301°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 74578, 74559, 74563 |
| Area Code | 918 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Panola, Oklahoma Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Panola, Oklahoma, 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 Panola includes coordinates 34.928710°N, 95.213301°W, situated in Latimer County. ZIP code 74578, 74559, 74563. Telephone area code: 918. 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.
