Jonesboro, AR Weather Forecast
Craighead County, Arkansas
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Jonesboro, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Jonesboro, AR at a glance
Jonesboro is home to about 80,650 people in Craighead County, across 80 square miles. It ranks 5th by population of 115 places in Arkansas with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Brookland, 8 miles away.
- County
- Craighead County
- Population
- 80,650 2023 est.
- Land area
- 80 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,006
- Forecast point
- 35.8198°N, 90.6790°W
How well can the network see Jonesboro?
The nearest Doppler radar is KNQA (Memphis, TN), to the SE. Its lowest scan passes about 4,100 ft above Jonesboro. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Jonesboro can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KJBR (Jonesboro Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Jonesboro
- Brookland, AR8 mi
- Bono, AR9 mi
- Lake City, AR13 mi
- Trumann, AR13 mi
- Paragould, AR19 mi
- Hoxie, AR22 mi
- Walnut Ridge, AR24 mi
- Manila, AR29 mi
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