United States · elevation 959 ft AMSL
· 41.9334, -85.0526
Branch County Memorial Airport (Coldwater) is an airport with the ICAO code KOEB. Country: United States. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Coldwater. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the KO prefix, which marks airports in United States. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 41°56'00"N, 85°03'09"W, at an elevation of 959 ft (292 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/Detroit.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 | 40° | 1,067 m (3,500 ft) | 23 m (75 ft) | asphalt |
| 22 | 220° | |||
| 07 | 70° | 1,631 m (5,350 ft) | 23 m (75 ft) | asphalt |
| 25 | 250° | |||
| 16 | 160° | 731 m (2,399 ft) | 58 m (190 ft) | grass |
| 34 | 340° |
The course is derived from the runway designator (number × 10), not from a survey - the actual magnetic bearing can differ by a few degrees.
Declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) are published in the national AIP - they are not part of this table.
What the METAR reports from KOEB for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 25,798 METAR reports issued by KOEB in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 71% of the time, MVFR 18% and IFR or LIFR 11%. Best month for VFR flying: May (82% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: January (25%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 11:00 UTC (19% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 20:00 UTC (6%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 26 days a year on average, most often in September. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 0 days a year on average, and snowfall on 63.
The wind most often blows from SW (225°) - 10% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 11% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 1%. Warmest month: July (average high 27.9 °C); coldest: January (average low -5.2 °C).
Day counts are for the selected period (for all years - the yearly average).
The top of each bar is the average daily high, the bottom the average daily low (usually around dawn), in °C.
Most often: SW - 10% of reports. Each petal shows the direction the wind blows from (as in METAR) - the longer it is, the more often. Colour shows wind speed.
| Month | Avg high °C | Avg low °C | VFR | IFR/LIFR | Fog days | Thunderstorm days | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.1 | -5.2 | 35% | 25% | 3.3 | 0 | 20 |
| February | 4.8 | -4.2 | 69% | 10% | 1.4 | 0 | 10 |
| March | 10.1 | 0.3 | 70% | 11% | 0.3 | 0 | 9.2 |
| April | 16.1 | 4.7 | 79% | 6% | 0.3 | 0 | 3.1 |
| May | 22.2 | 10.1 | 82% | 6% | 0.7 | 0 | 0.7 |
| June | 27.0 | 15.8 | 82% | 8% | 1.4 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 27.9 | 17.3 | 79% | 8% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 25.9 | 15.2 | 82% | 7% | 4.5 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 24.6 | 12.2 | 78% | 11% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 18.0 | 7.1 | 82% | 7% | 2.3 | 0 | 0.3 |
| November | 9.7 | 1.4 | 66% | 11% | 0.7 | 0 | 6.3 |
| December | 4.1 | -2.7 | 45% | 23% | 3.4 | 0 | 13 |
Temperatures are averages of daily highs and lows. Day counts are the average per month over the period.
According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Branch County Memorial Airport (Coldwater) has 3 runways: 04/22 - 1,067 m long (3,500 ft), 23 m wide, asphalt surface; 07/25 - 1,631 m long (5,350 ft), 23 m wide, asphalt surface; 16/34 - 731 m long (2,399 ft), 58 m wide, grass surface.
The longest of them is 07/25, at 1,631 m.
The airport combines paved and grass surfaces: 2 paved and 1 grass runways.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 04/22 on 40° and 220° magnetic, 07/25 on 70° and 250° magnetic, 16/34 on 160° and 340° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.
For the 04/22 axis, wind from the south-east (around 130°) or from the north-west (around 310°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 40° or 220° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.
Weather reports for Branch County Memorial Airport (Coldwater) are published under the ICAO code KOEB. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.
The decoder breaks the KOEB report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.
Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for KOEB, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/Detroit zone is GMT-05:00 in winter and GMT-04:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.
The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Tri State Steuben County Airport (Angola) (KANQ, 33 km), Kirsch Municipal Airport (Sturgis) (KIRS, 35 km), Brooks Field (Marshall) (KRMY, 36 km). When no report is available for KOEB, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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