KWN50: NOAA Weather Radio, Ashburn

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KWN50 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Ashburn, Georgia, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Tallahassee, FL programs it. It covers 6 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KWN50 (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: KWN50
Frequency: 162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power: 300 W
Status: On the air
Station: Ashburn
State: Georgia
NWS office: Tallahassee, FL
Location: 31.6394, -83.7494

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
Crisp	Georgia	013081	Whole county
Dougherty	Georgia	013095	Whole county
Lee	Georgia	013177	Whole county
Tift	Georgia	013277	Whole county
Turner	Georgia	013287	Whole county
Worth	Georgia	013321	Whole county

Nearby transmitters

Weather radio in Georgia Every transmitter The forecast here Alerts in force in Georgia

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.