NOAA's National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

NOAA Weather Radio serves as an alerting device for any life-threatening emergency, whether it's weather-related or not. NOAA Weather Radio, also called NOAA All-Hazards Radio, broadcasts information on chemical spills, forest fires, and terrorist attacks, in addition to weather hazards.

Some types of NOAA Weather Radios, called SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) receivers, can be programmed to sound alerts for only the county or counties that you specify. This eliminates alerts that are for distant counties of no interest to you.

Across the United States, NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts from over 400 FM transmitters on seven frequencies in the VHF band, ranging from 162.400 to 162.550 megahertz (MHz). The Paducah National Weather Service office now operates a total of eleven NOAA Weather Radio transmitters. The map below indicates the approximate coverage area of each transmitter, along with the frequency and call sign. The color shades in each transmitter area are not intended to depict actual transmitter signal coverage.

The latest transmitter updates, not yet depicted on the following map, are described here. Most recently, Union County, Kentucky has been added to the official coverage area of KIG-76, transmitting on a frequency of 162.550 MHz from near Evansville, IN.