KBA99: NOAA Weather Radio, Oahu
KBA99 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Oahu, with the transmitter at Mt. Kaala, Hawaii, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Honolulu, HI programs it. It covers 1 county.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KBA99 (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
- KBA99
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Oahu
- Transmitter site
- Mt. Kaala
- State
- Hawaii
- NWS office
- Honolulu, HI
- Location
- 21.5084, -158.1477
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honolulu | Hawaii | 015003 | NW |
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 27, 2026 at 4:04 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.