Weather radio in California

KAD94: NOAA Weather Radio, Yosemite

162.450 MHz · 85 W · On the air

KAD94 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Yosemite, with the transmitter at Turtleback Dome, California, at 85 W. The National Weather Service office in Hanford, CA programs it. It covers 1 county.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KAD94 (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
KAD94
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
85 W
Status
On the air
Station
Yosemite
Transmitter site
Turtleback Dome
NWS office
Hanford, CA
Location
37.7128, -119.7047

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
MariposaCalifornia006043North central

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.