Weather radio in Kentucky

KIH39: NOAA Weather Radio, Ashland

162.550 MHz · 1,090 W · On the air

KIH39 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Ashland, Kentucky, at 1,090 W. The National Weather Service office in Charleston, WV programs it. It covers 17 counties in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIH39 (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
KIH39
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,090 W
Status
On the air
Station
Ashland
NWS office
Charleston, WV
Location
38.4619, -82.6198

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
BoydKentucky021019Whole county
CarterKentucky021043Central/E
ElliottKentucky021063Central/E
GreenupKentucky021089Whole county
JohnsonKentucky021115N
LawrenceKentucky021127Whole county
LewisKentucky021135NE
MartinKentucky021159N
GalliaOhio039053S
JacksonOhio039079SW
LawrenceOhio039087Whole county
SciotoOhio039145Central/SE
CabellWest Virginia054011Whole county
LincolnWest Virginia054043NW
MasonWest Virginia054053SW
PutnamWest Virginia054079W
WayneWest Virginia054099Not S

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.