Weather radio in Alabama

KIH55: NOAA Weather Radio, Montgomery

162.400 MHz · 911 W · On the air

KIH55 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Montgomery, with the transmitter at WAIQ TV, Alabama, at 911 W. The National Weather Service office in Birmingham, AL programs it. It covers 14 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIH55 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.

  • On the air
  • Degraded
  • Off the air

The transmitter

Call sign
KIH55
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
911 W
Status
On the air
Station
Montgomery
Transmitter site
WAIQ TV
State
Alabama
NWS office
Birmingham, AL
Location
32.3819, -86.2926

Counties covered

Program a SAME receiver with the code of your county. Coverage is NWS’s note of the part of a county the signal reaches.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
AutaugaAlabama001001Whole county
BullockAlabama001011Whole county
ButlerAlabama001013Whole county
ChiltonAlabama001021Whole county
CoosaAlabama001037Whole county
CrenshawAlabama001041Whole county
DallasAlabama001047Whole county
ElmoreAlabama001051Whole county
LowndesAlabama001085Whole county
MaconAlabama001087Whole county
MontgomeryAlabama001101Whole county
PikeAlabama001109Whole county
TallapoosaAlabama001123Whole county
WilcoxAlabama001131Whole county

Nearby transmitters

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Sources

Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 27, 2026 at 10:48 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.