Weather radio in Alabama

KIH57: NOAA Weather Radio, Florence

162.475 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KIH57 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Florence, with the transmitter at Crooked Oak, Alabama, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Huntsville, AL programs it. It covers 6 counties in Alabama and Mississippi.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIH57 (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
KIH57
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Florence
Transmitter site
Crooked Oak
State
Alabama
NWS office
Huntsville, AL
Location
34.5839, -87.7872

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
ColbertAlabama001033Whole county
FranklinAlabama001059Whole county
LauderdaleAlabama001077Whole county
LawrenceAlabama001079Whole county
MarionAlabama001093Whole county
ItawambaMississippi028057Whole 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 8:58 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.