Weather radio in Florida

KEC86: NOAA Weather Radio, Pensacola

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KEC86 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Pensacola, with the transmitter at Milton, Florida, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Mobile, AL programs it. It covers 5 counties in Alabama and Florida.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KEC86 (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
KEC86
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Pensacola
Transmitter site
Milton
State
Florida
NWS office
Mobile, AL
Location
30.5886, -87.0706

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
BaldwinAlabama001003Whole county
EscambiaAlabama001053Whole county
EscambiaFlorida012033Whole county
OkaloosaFlorida012091Whole county
Santa RosaFlorida012113Whole 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 26, 2026 at 11:46 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.