Cotton Center, Texas Weather
Cotton Center, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cotton Center, Hale County.
Full aviation weather for Cotton Center is published on the Hale County Airport (KPVW) page, 32 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 Cotton Center 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 Cotton Center: Littlefield Municipal Airport (KLIU) 37 km · Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (KLBB) 40 km · Joe Vaughn Spraying Airport (K29F) 49 km · Town & Country Airpark (KF82) 59 km
Conditions reported at KPVW describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cotton Center specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cotton Center.
About Cotton Center, Texas
Cotton Center rises from the flat, broad expanse of the High Plains, a land where the sky seems to stretch on forever, bruised with the evening's deep purples and fading oranges. It lies 29.8 miles north-north-west of Lubbock, TX (from Lubbock, TX: bearing 345°T), and is situated 9.9 miles west-south-west of Hale Center. The terrain here is a study in subtle contours, a vast, open canvas where the wind sculpts the dust into shifting patterns across fields that lie in immense, geometric quilts. The air, when the sun relinquishes its hold, carries the dry, earthy scent of parched soil and the faint, sweet whisper of ripening cotton. Here, the horizon is a constant, unwavering line, broken only by the occasional grain silo or the skeletal silhouette of a wind turbine, markers of human endeavor against the immense, elemental backdrop. This is a place etched by the legacy of cotton, the crop that gave Cotton Center its name and sustained its people for generations. The local economy, though diversified now, still echoes the rhythmic pull of the harvest, the hum of tractors in the distance a familiar soundtrack to the quiet days. History is not a grand pronouncement here, but a quiet understanding, a continuity of life lived close to the land. The distinctive character of Cotton Center lies in its unpretentious resilience, a testament to the enduring spirit of those who have carved a life from this wide, open country, their stories woven into the very fabric of the soil.
Live animated radar for Cotton Center 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 | Cotton Center, Hale County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 33.993138°N, 101.992954°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 79041, 79021, 75418 |
| Area Code | 972, 469, 806 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cotton Center, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cotton Center, Texas, 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 Cotton Center includes coordinates 33.993138°N, 101.992954°W, situated in Hale County. ZIP code 79041, 79021, 75418. Telephone area code: 972, 469, 806. 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.
