Kevil, Kentucky Weather
Kevil, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Kevil, Ballard County.
Full aviation weather for Kevil is published on the Barkley Regional Airport (KPAH) page, 10 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Kevil have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Kevil: Metropolis Municipal Airport (KM30) 16 km · Cairo Regional Airport (KCIR) 30 km · Mayfield Graves County Airport (KM25) 44 km · Mississippi County Airport (KCHQ) 50 km · Kentucky Dam State Park Airport (KM34) 53 km
Conditions reported at KPAH describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Kevil specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Kevil.
About Kevil, Kentucky
Kevil, a whisper of a place in Ballard County, unfurls across a land where the soil runs deep and the sky feels vast enough to swallow the horizon. It lies 15.8 miles west of Paducah, KY (from Paducah, KY: bearing 271°T), and is situated 9.7 miles west-south-west of Metropolis. Here, the earth hums with the slow, steady work of agriculture, a verdant quilt stitched with the emerald of young corn and the pale gold of ripening wheat. The air, especially in the languid afternoons of late summer, carries the dry, sweet scent of cut hay and the fainter, more elusive perfume of wild phlox blooming along the dusty shoulders of the road. The land itself is a gentle swell, a rolling canvas that catches the sun in shifting patterns, painting the fields in hues of ochre and moss, and blurring the edges of the distant tree lines into soft, hazy washes. The history of Kevil is written in the quiet persistence of its people and the enduring rhythm of the seasons, a story tied inextricably to the fertile ground and the nearby waters. For generations, the economy of Kevil has been rooted in the cultivation of the land, a legacy passed down through calloused hands and an intimate knowledge of the earth's bounty. While farming remains the bedrock, the occasional glint of machinery on a distant tractor hints at a more modern approach to time-honored traditions. There’s a palpable sense of continuity here, a feeling that the past isn't so much buried as it is woven into the very fabric of the present, evident in the weathered barns that stand sentinel over fields that have yielded harvests for decades, each one a quiet testament to the enduring spirit of this Ballard County corner.
Live animated radar for Kevil and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Kevil, Ballard County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 37.085054°N, 88.886728°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 42053 |
| Area Code | 270, 364 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Kevil, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kevil, Kentucky, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Kevil includes coordinates 37.085054°N, 88.886728°W, situated in Ballard County. ZIP code 42053. Telephone area code: 270, 364. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
