The 26th Operational Weather Squadron (26 OWS), based out of Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, is the United States Air Force meteorological squadron responsible for the Southeastern United States.

The current states in the Area of Responsibility (AOR) include Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas.

Against the background of sky, the primary theater of Air Force operations, the blue saltire bearing the arrow crossed by the lightning bolt commemorates the squadron's history and organization in September 1943.

The squadron activated on 10 October 1943, under the command of Lt Col Chester W. Cecil, Jr., at Orlando Army Air Base, Florida.

The newly independent United States Air Force reconstituted the 26th Weather Squadron on 18 May 1948.

The 26th Weather Squadron was soon indirectly supporting Operation VITTLES as Brookley transports, including the limited production C-74 Globemaster I, began participating in the Berlin Airlift.

The squadron began its long association with the 3rd Weather Wing on 8 October 1956, to which it was assigned until it was inactivated on 30 June 1972.

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