Weather radio in Kentucky

KIH44: NOAA Weather Radio, Somerset

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

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
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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
AdairKentucky021001Whole county
CaseyKentucky021045Whole county
ClintonKentucky021053Whole county
CumberlandKentucky021057Whole county
GreenKentucky021087Whole county
HartKentucky021099Whole county
KnoxKentucky021121Whole county
LaurelKentucky021125Whole county
LincolnKentucky021137Whole county
MarionKentucky021155Whole county
McCrearyKentucky021147Whole county
MetcalfeKentucky021169Whole county
MonroeKentucky021171Whole county
PulaskiKentucky021199Whole county
RockcastleKentucky021203Whole county
RussellKentucky021207Whole county
TaylorKentucky021217Whole county
WashingtonKentucky021229Whole county
WayneKentucky021231Whole county
WhitleyKentucky021235Whole 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 28, 2026 at 1:53 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.