Beaver Dam, KY Weather Forecast
Ohio County, Kentucky
Seven-day outlook
41–79°F across the weekThe week runs between 50° and 79°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 52%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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 Beaver Dam forecast
Beaver Dam sits at 37.4038°N, 86.8736°W in Ohio County, Kentucky. 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
- Ohio County
- Coordinates
- 37.4038°N, 86.8736°W
- Population
- 3,498 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 3.038 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Beaver Dam, 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 Beaver Dam?
The nearest Doppler radar is KHPX (Fort Campbell, KY), 51 miles to the SSW. 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 Beaver Dam its center is about 3,700 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Beaver Dam to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KM21 · Greenville/Muhlenberg Cnty on the ASOS/AWOS network, 20 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Beaver Dam 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 Kentucky observing network as of this build.
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