Weather radio in Kentucky

KIH41: NOAA Weather Radio, Lexington

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KIH41 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Lexington, with the transmitter at Richmond, Kentucky, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Louisville, KY programs it. It covers 22 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIH41 (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
KIH41
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Lexington
Transmitter site
Richmond
NWS office
Louisville, KY
Location
37.8792, -84.3255

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
AndersonKentucky021005Whole county
BathKentucky021011Whole county
BourbonKentucky021017Whole county
BoyleKentucky021021Whole county
ClarkKentucky021049Whole county
EstillKentucky021065Whole county
FayetteKentucky021067Whole county
FlemingKentucky021069Whole county
FranklinKentucky021073Whole county
GarrardKentucky021079Whole county
HarrisonKentucky021097Whole county
JessamineKentucky021113Whole county
MadisonKentucky021151Whole county
MenifeeKentucky021165Whole county
MercerKentucky021167Whole county
MontgomeryKentucky021173Whole county
NicholasKentucky021181Whole county
PowellKentucky021197Whole county
RobertsonKentucky021201Whole county
RowanKentucky021205Whole county
ScottKentucky021209Whole county
WoodfordKentucky021239Whole 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 27, 2026 at 10:48 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.