Mountain Fork at Smithville07338750
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/665 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Smithville, Oklahoma
Town in McCurtain County, OklahomaRed Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 1 AM CDT SATURDAY DUE TO WIND SHIFT, MOISTURE DROP AND WIND, LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS, NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA, SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA, AND EAST AND NORTHEAST TEXAS... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of south central and southwest Arkansas, north central and northwest Louisiana, southeast Oklahoma, and east and northeast Texas. * TIMING...From 10 AM this morning to 1 AM CDT Saturday. * WINDS...North winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Relative Humidity between 30 to 72 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning. Follow all fire restrictions. One less spark, one less wildfire. A Red Flag Warning is issued when we identify weather conditions that promote rapid spread of fire which may become life-threatening. This does not mean there is a fire. These conditions are either occurring now or will begin soon. It is important to have multiple ways to receive information from authorities.
57°
63°/50°
Clear·
Feels like 57°·Moderate breeze 15 mph N
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Smithville until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Smithville is 57° and clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
23Air quality
44%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
57feels57
15mph
Today
Oct 16
6350
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6641
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7039
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7441
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7845
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8147
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8550
overcast
57°
63°50°
66°41°
70°39°
74°41°
78°45°
81°47°
85°50°
As of 11:00 AM in Smithville, Oklahoma.
Air quality
The air at Smithville
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Roland (OK), 69 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone23Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Smithville
None in the last 24 hours; 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.11in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Smithville, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Smithville, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Smithville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Rank330of 859
Robert S Kerr Airport/PoteauRKR
At an airfield/37.8 mi away/453 ft/286 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BattiestBSTO2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.6 mi away/807 ft/68 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hochatown 6.3 WOK-MN-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.9 mi away/740 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Robert S Kerr Airport/Poteau, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 37.8 mi from Smithville, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
57.2 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 47 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,500 ft up.
The wind
From the north (360 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Battiest (BSTO2), 15.6 miles from here, read 7 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.