Prichard, West Virginia Weather
Prichard, West Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Prichard, Wayne County.
Full aviation weather for Prichard is published on the Tri-State Airport / Milton J. Ferguson Field (KHTS) page, 14 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 Prichard 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 Prichard: Lawrence County Airpark (KHTW) 22 km · Ashland Regional Airport (KDWU) 37 km · Ona Airpark (K12V) 41 km
Conditions reported at KHTS describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Prichard specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Prichard.
About Prichard, West Virginia
Prichard slumbers in a fold of the land where the Tug Fork River, a muddy artery of the Ohio, carves its persistent way. It lies 14.9 miles south-west of Huntington, WV (from Huntington, WV: bearing 214°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north of Louisa. The terrain here is a study in abruptness, hills rising with a suddenness that seems to defy the slow work of erosion, their flanks often cloaked in a dense, green confusion of oak and maple. The air, particularly after a rain, carries the damp, loamy scent of the valley floor, a smell that clings to the weathered wood of the houses and the corrugated metal roofs of the businesses. Sunlight, when it breaks through the frequent cloud cover, falls in broad, golden shafts, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the quiet exhalations of the day. The story of Prichard is intrinsically tied to the deep seams of coal that once defined this corner of West Virginia, a heritage that echoes in the stoic faces of its residents and the enduring presence of abandoned mine shafts. Though the mines have largely fallen silent, the spirit of industry persists, now often channeled into smaller enterprises and the quiet hum of the trucking industry that moves goods along the nearby highways. The Tug Fork, once a highway for barges laden with coal, now offers a slower kind of solace, its banks a place for quiet contemplation, where the water’s murmur provides a constant soundtrack to the rhythm of life in Prichard.
Live animated radar for Prichard 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 | Prichard, Wayne County, West Virginia |
| Coordinates | 38.240084°N, 82.598491°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 25555 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Prichard, West Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Prichard, 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 Prichard includes coordinates 38.240084°N, 82.598491°W, situated in Wayne County. ZIP code 25555. 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.
