Benton, AR Weather Forecast
Saline County, Arkansas
Seven-day outlook
44–82°F across the weekThe week runs between 53° and 82°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tuesday is the wettest day, peaking near 55%.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Benton forecast
Benton sits at 34.5774°N, 92.5726°W in Saline County, Arkansas. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Saline County
- Coordinates
- 34.5774°N, 92.5726°W
- Population
- 37,558 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 22.899 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Benton, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Benton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLZK (Little Rock, AR), 25 miles to the NE. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Benton its center is about 1,500 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Benton, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Benton is closer to its radar than 78% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KLIT · Little Rock/Clinton Natl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 22 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Benton is an educated reading of somewhere else, worth knowing before you plan around a single temperature.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Arkansas observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Benton
- Bryant, AR5 mi
- Haskell, AR6 mi
- Alexander, AR7 mi
- Shannon Hills, AR10 mi
- Little Rock, AR16 mi
- Sheridan, AR19 mi
- Malvern, AR20 mi
- Maumelle, AR21 mi
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