Lone Star, Texas Weather
Lone Star, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Lone Star, Bell County.
Full aviation weather for Lone Star is published on the Skylark Field (KILE) page, 2 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 Lone Star 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 Lone Star: Killeen Regional Airport / Robert Gray Army Airfield (KGRK) 13 km · Draughon Miller Central Texas Regional Airport (KTPL) 28 km · Gatesville Municipal Airport (KGOP) 37 km · McGregor Executive Airport (KPWG) 56 km
Conditions reported at KILE describe the airfield itself. Weather 2 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Lone Star specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Lone Star.
About Lone Star, Texas
Lone Star rests in the rolling heart of Bell County, a landscape painted in broad strokes of sun-baked earth and sky. It lies 2.0 miles east-south-east of Killeen, TX (from Killeen, TX: bearing 120°T), and is situated 2.7 miles west-north-west of Harker Heights. Here, the land itself seems to breathe, its gentle slopes yielding to the persistent Texas sun, a golden warmth that lingers long after the sky has deepened to indigo. Mesquite trees, gnarled and resilient, dot the pastures, their thorny branches reaching out like ancient hands, witnesses to countless seasons of wind and rain. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a clean, dry scent, a subtle perfume of wild grasses and distant cattle, a quiet promise of the day's unfolding. Even the stillness here feels alive, humming with the unseen workings of nature. The history of Lone Star is as deep-rooted as the live oaks that offer shade on its country roads, a story woven from the threads of agriculture and the quiet perseverance of its people. For generations, this land has nourished, first by the bounty of cotton fields that once stretched to the horizon, and now by the steady rhythm of cattle ranches and smaller farms. The economy, while not grand in scale, possesses a sturdy resilience, built on the sweat of honest labor and a shared understanding of the land's demands. Occasionally, a weathered barn or an old windmill stands as a sentinel, a silent monument to the families who built Lone Star, their legacy whispered on the breeze that rustles through the tall prairie grass.
Live animated radar for Lone Star 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 | Lone Star, Bell County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 31.102954°N, 97.698906°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 75426, 76543, 75558, 75668 |
| Area Code | 972, 903 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Lone Star, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lone Star, 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 Lone Star includes coordinates 31.102954°N, 97.698906°W, situated in Bell County. ZIP code 75426, 76543, 75558, 75668. Telephone area code: 972, 903. 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.
