Kress, Texas Weather
Kress, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Kress, Swisher County.
Full aviation weather for Kress is published on the Joe Vaughn Spraying Airport (K29F) page, 3 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. 4 airfields within reach of Kress 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 Kress: Hale County Airport (KPVW) 22 km · City of Tulia-Swisher County Municipal Airport (KI06) 22 km · Floydada Municipal Airport (K41F) 56 km
Conditions reported at K29F describe the airfield itself. Weather 3 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Kress specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Kress.
About Kress, Texas
Kress rests within a vast expanse of West Texas earth, where the land rolls with a subtle, unbroken grace under an impossibly wide sky. It lies 54.8 miles north of Lubbock, TX (from Lubbock, TX: bearing 6°T), and is situated 12.8 miles north of Plainview. The horizon stretches, a clean line bisecting the pale blue, and the air, when it moves, carries the dry, clean scent of distant grama grass and sun-baked soil. Here, the landscape is defined by an immensity that can feel both humbling and exhilarating, a canvas of muted greens and ochres that shifts with the angle of the sun. The few trees that break the expanse stand like stoic sentinels, their branches reaching towards the heavens in a gesture of enduring patience. The lifeblood of Kress has long been drawn from the rich, dark soil, a legacy of the agricultural pioneers who settled this part of the High Plains. Generations have cultivated the land, their efforts yielding crops that speak to the resilience and deep connection between the people and the earth. The local economy, still largely rooted in agriculture, hums with a quiet industriousness, from the dawn-lit fields to the grain elevators that punctuate the skyline like silent monuments to harvest. Kress itself embodies the spirit of these plains: a place of straightforward character, where the days unfold with a steady, unhurried cadence, and the community’s strength is as palpable as the vastness of the sky above.
Live animated radar for Kress 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 | Kress, Swisher County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 34.366455°N, 101.748513°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 79052 |
| Area Code | 806 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Kress, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kress, 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 Kress includes coordinates 34.366455°N, 101.748513°W, situated in Swisher County. ZIP code 79052. Telephone area code: 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.
