Dougherty, Texas Weather
Dougherty, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Dougherty, Rains County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Dougherty. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Dougherty is published on the Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport (KSLR) page, 27 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 Dougherty 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 Dougherty: Majors Airport (KGVT) 30 km · Wood County Airport - Collins Field (KJDD) 35 km · Van Zandt County Regional Airport (K76F) 36 km · Mineola Wisener Field (K3F9) 39 km · Caddo Mills Municipal Airport (K7F3) 45 km
Conditions reported at KSLR describe the airfield itself. Weather 27 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Dougherty specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Dougherty.
About Dougherty, Texas
Dougherty lies low in the East Texas landscape, a place where the earth exhales a humid breath and the sky feels vast, often a bruised lavender at dusk. It lies 23.5 miles east-south-east of Greenville, TX (from Greenville, TX: bearing 122°T), and is situated 5.6 miles north of Emory. The terrain here is a gentle rolling, a tapestry of scrub oak and pine, interspersed with fields that lie fallow for long stretches, their dry stalks whispering in the breeze. The air, particularly in the late afternoon, carries the scent of sun-baked earth and the distant hum of cicadas, a sound that seems to hold the very stillness of the place. Ponds, often more like wide ditches filled with murky water, dot the fields, reflecting the immense sky and the occasional heron standing sentinel, its patience a mirror to the slow, deliberate pulse of Dougherty. The history of Dougherty is etched not in grand monuments but in the weathered planks of its few remaining structures and the stories passed down like heirlooms. This was a place that drew its lifeblood from the land, a time when cotton fields stretched to the horizon and the rhythm of the seasons dictated the lives of its inhabitants. Though the agricultural roots run deep, the local economy now leans more on the quiet persistence of small businesses and the steady flow of traffic on the nearby highways, a testament to the resilience of those who call Dougherty home. There's a palpable sense of enduring, a quiet strength in the way the community carries its past without being burdened by it, a subtle acknowledgment of the lives that have bloomed and faded on this particular patch of Texas soil.
Live animated radar for Dougherty 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 | Dougherty, Rains County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 32.955674°N, 95.769129°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 75440, 79231 |
| Area Code | 972, 469, 806 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dougherty, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dougherty, 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 Dougherty includes coordinates 32.955674°N, 95.769129°W, situated in Rains County. ZIP code 75440, 79231. 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.
