Radar Base, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Radar Base, Maverick County.
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Radar Base spreads across a land where the sun, a relentless golden eye, presses its heat into the scrubby earth and the distant, hazy mountains. It lies 10.4 miles north-north-west of Eagle Pass, TX (from Eagle Pass, TX: bearing 349°T), and is situated 6.2 miles north-north-west of Elm Creek. The terrain, a patchwork of pale grasses and tenacious mesquite, rolls out in broad, unhurried strokes, punctuated by the occasional, stoic silhouette of a lone windmill. Even the air seems to carry a certain dryness, a whisper of dust lifted by the infrequent breeze, and at the edge of the day, the sky bleeds into hues of bruised purple and fiery orange, a silent, spectacular performance for an audience of very few. This is a place with a singular purpose etched into its very being, a legacy of watchful vigilance that still hums faintly beneath the surface. While the immediate landscape might suggest a quiet agricultural existence, the echoes of its past as a strategic sentinel remain. The local economy, though perhaps modest, is rooted in the hardy spirit of its people, accustomed to the wide-open spaces and the challenges of this semi-arid climate. There are no grand monuments here, no bustling marketplaces, but rather a quiet dignity in the way life unfolds, a steady rhythm dictated by the sun and the seasons, a testament to resilience in the heart of Maverick County.
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| Location | Radar Base, Maverick County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 28.8568°N, 100.5336°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 78852 |
| Area Code | 512, 830 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Radar Base, Texas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Radar Base includes coordinates 28.856800°N, 100.533600°W, situated in Maverick County. ZIP code 78852. Telephone area code: 512, 830. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.