KIG78: NOAA Weather Radio, Coachella
KIG78 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Coachella, with the transmitter at Riverside County, California, at 104 W. The National Weather Service office in San Diego, CA programs it. It covers 2 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KIG78 (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
- KIG78
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 104 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Coachella
- Transmitter site
- Riverside County
- State
- California
- NWS office
- San Diego, CA
- Location
- 33.6549, -115.9902
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial | California | 006025 | West |
| Riverside | California | 006065 | 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 4:56 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.