KIH44: NOAA Weather Radio, Somerset
KIH44 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Somerset, with the transmitter at Bethelridge, Kentucky, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY programs it. It covers 20 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KIH44 (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
- KIH44
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Somerset
- Transmitter site
- Bethelridge
- State
- Kentucky
- NWS office
- Jackson, KY
- Location
- 37.1674, -84.8244
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adair | Kentucky | 021001 | Whole county |
| Casey | Kentucky | 021045 | Whole county |
| Clinton | Kentucky | 021053 | Whole county |
| Cumberland | Kentucky | 021057 | Whole county |
| Green | Kentucky | 021087 | Whole county |
| Hart | Kentucky | 021099 | Whole county |
| Knox | Kentucky | 021121 | Whole county |
| Laurel | Kentucky | 021125 | Whole county |
| Lincoln | Kentucky | 021137 | Whole county |
| Marion | Kentucky | 021155 | Whole county |
| McCreary | Kentucky | 021147 | Whole county |
| Metcalfe | Kentucky | 021169 | Whole county |
| Monroe | Kentucky | 021171 | Whole county |
| Pulaski | Kentucky | 021199 | Whole county |
| Rockcastle | Kentucky | 021203 | Whole county |
| Russell | Kentucky | 021207 | Whole county |
| Taylor | Kentucky | 021217 | Whole county |
| Washington | Kentucky | 021229 | Whole county |
| Wayne | Kentucky | 021231 | Whole county |
| Whitley | Kentucky | 021235 | Whole county |
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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 28, 2026 at 1:53 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.