Branson, MO Weather Forecast
Taney County, Missouri
Seven-day outlook
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 Branson forecast
Branson sits at 36.6123°N, 93.2918°W in Taney County, Missouri. 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
- Taney County
- Coordinates
- 36.6123°N, 93.2918°W
- Population
- 12,897 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 21.341 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Branson, 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 Branson?
The nearest Doppler radar is KSGF (Springfield, MO), 43 miles to the N. 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 Branson its center is about 2,900 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Branson to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Branson is closer to its radar than 51% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KBBG · Branson Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 8.0 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
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 Missouri observing network as of this build.
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