Kimball, West Virginia Weather
Kimball, West Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Kimball, McDowell County.
Full aviation weather for Kimball is published on the Mercer County Airport (KBLF) page, 30 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. 3 airfields within reach of Kimball 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 Kimball: Tazewell County Airport (KJFZ) 48 km · Raleigh County Memorial Airport (KBKW) 52 km
Conditions reported at KBLF describe the airfield itself. Weather 30 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Kimball specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Kimball.
About Kimball, West Virginia
Kimball wears its McDowell County home with a rugged grace, a place where the earth folds in on itself to create hollows and ridges, a landscape of deep greens and shadowed hollows. It lies 61.6 miles west-north-west of Blacksburg, VA (from Blacksburg, VA: bearing 283°T), and is situated 4.3 miles east of Welch. The air, even on a clear day, carries a certain dampness, a breath from the surrounding mountains that seem to lean in close, their slopes a patchwork of dense forest and weathered rock. The sky above, when it deigns to show itself fully, is often a bruised blue, or a soft, diffused grey, lending a quiet, contemplative mood to the winding roads and the scattered dwellings that cling to the hillsides. The very terrain dictates a certain slowing, a mindful navigation through the curves and inclines, where each turn reveals a new vista of undulating, tree-clad peaks. This is a place shaped by the deep seams of the earth, where the legacy of coal mining is not merely a footnote but the very bedrock of its identity. For generations, the rhythm of Kimball was dictated by the clang of pickaxes and the rumble of coal cars, a demanding economy that carved livelihoods from the unforgiving mountainside. Though the boom times have receded, the echoes of that industry remain, a subtle weight in the character of the place, a testament to the resilience and hardiness of its people. The local economy, now more varied, still draws strength from the land, but the memory of the mines imbues Kimball with a particular, enduring spirit, a quiet understanding of toil and fortitude that hangs in the air like the lingering scent of woodsmoke.
Live animated radar for Kimball 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.
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| Location | Kimball, McDowell County, West Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.42567°N, 81.506771°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 24853 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Kimball, West Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kimball, West Virginia, 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 Kimball includes coordinates 37.425670°N, 81.506771°W, situated in McDowell County. ZIP code 24853. Telephone area code: 304. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
