Weather radio in Alabama

KIH56: NOAA Weather Radio, Louisville

162.475 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KIH56 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Louisville, with the transmitter at Texasville, Alabama, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Birmingham, AL programs it. It covers 10 counties in Alabama and Georgia.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIH56 (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
KIH56
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Louisville
Transmitter site
Texasville
State
Alabama
NWS office
Birmingham, AL
Location
31.7181, -85.4341

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
BarbourAlabama001005Whole county
BullockAlabama001011Whole county
CoffeeAlabama001031Whole county
CrenshawAlabama001041Whole county
DaleAlabama001045Whole county
GenevaAlabama001061Whole county
HenryAlabama001067Whole county
PikeAlabama001109Whole county
RussellAlabama001113Whole county
QuitmanGeorgia013239Whole 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 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.