LongviewTCEQ-19
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.8 mi away/358 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Kilgore until 1 AM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 69° after 89° today.
Now. Kilgore is 71° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 59° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 85°, and the coolest Saturday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Kilgore, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kilgore, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Kilgore, 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 now3 instruments
LongviewTCEQ-19
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.8 mi away/358 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.8 mi away/407 ft/100 ft above here
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Citizen station CW3590CW3590
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.8 mi away/554 ft/247 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kilgore 0.8 NETX-GG-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/329 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LongviewLVWT2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.3 mi away/299 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.8 mi from Kilgore, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.