Weather radio in Alabama

KIH60: NOAA Weather Radio, Tuscaloosa

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KIH60 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Tuscaloosa, with the transmitter at Holt, Alabama, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Birmingham, AL programs it. It covers 9 counties in Alabama and Mississippi.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIH60 (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
KIH60
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Tuscaloosa
Transmitter site
Holt
State
Alabama
NWS office
Birmingham, AL
Location
33.2142, -87.4900

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
BibbAlabama001007Whole county
FayetteAlabama001057Whole county
GreeneAlabama001063Whole county
HaleAlabama001065Whole county
JeffersonAlabama001073Whole county
PickensAlabama001107Whole county
TuscaloosaAlabama001125Whole county
LowndesMississippi028087Whole county
NoxubeeMississippi028103Whole 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 11:12 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.