KTCL — Tuscaloosa Ntl
Tuscaloosa, AL · field elevation 170 ft · Class D airspace · ATCT
KTCL current weather Live
VFR ceiling above 3,000 ft and visibility better than 5 statute miles
METAR KTCL 100253Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 09/07 A3019 RMK AO2 SLP221 T00940072 51009
- Wind
- calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Sky
- clear below 12,000 ft
- Temperature
- 9 °C / dewpoint 7 °C
- Altimeter
- 30.19 inHg
- Density altitude
- -789 ft · pressure altitude -100 ft
- Observed
- 22 minutes ago
Learn: reading a METAR, the weather course
48-hour trend
Eight days of observations, each readable in full — in the EFB →
Calculators: density altitude, pressure altitude, cloud base, crosswind
Pilot reports
1 within 50 nm in the last six hours, 26,000–26,000 ft.
Read them where they were filed — in the EFB →
Forecast
MOS guidance beside this TAF, both drawn along your route — in the EFB →
TAF KTCL 092322Z 1000/1024 VRB03KT P6SM SCT250
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Airport information
- Coordinates
- 33.22063, -87.61140
- Elevation
- 170 ft MSL
- Surface airspace
-
Class D
Two-way radio communication must be established before you enter, while the tower is open.
The same callsign rule as Class C. When the tower closes the airspace usually reverts to Class E, or to Class G where no surface area is charted — the Chart Supplement entry says which, and the hours are on the sectional. A surface area normally extends to 2,500 ft above the field, with the ceiling charted in a dashed blue box as a number in hundreds of feet.
- Sunrise / sunset
- 1217Z / 2251Z
- Tower hours
- 0700-2000
- Magnetic variation
- 0° (1990)
- Fuel
- 100LL,A
- Sectional
- Atlanta
- County
- Tuscaloosa, AL
Airport diagram
Everything else KTCL publishes — in the EFB →
Runways
| Runway | Length (ft) | Width (ft) | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 6,498 | 150 | ASPH | HIGH |
| 12/30 | 4,000 | 100 | ASPH | MED |
Frequencies
- Tower 0700-2000
- 126.3
- Ground
- 121.8
- Clearance
- 120.775
- CTAF
- 126.3
- UNICOM
- 122.95
- Approach
- 120.15
Published procedures
- 6 approaches — ILS, LOC, RNAV (GPS)
Read the approach plates georeferenced — in the EFB →
Nearby airports
- KEKY Bessemer Ntl35 nm
- KEET Shelby County42 nm
- KJFX Walker County/Bevill Fld44 nm
- KBHM Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Intl48 nm
- KDYA Demopolis Rgnl49 nm
- KCBM Columbus AFB49 nm
Elsewhere
- Make a poster of the KTCL airport diagram or an approach plate
- Other Alabama airports
- How to read a METAR
- What VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR actually mean
- Live records — the strongest winds and lowest ceilings in the country right now
Weather from METAR and TAF, National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center. Airport, runway, frequency and procedure data from the FAA NASR 28-day cycle; charts from the FAA d-TPP. Advisory only — this is not a weather briefing.