Weather radio in Kentucky

KIH45: NOAA Weather Radio, Bowling Green

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KIH45 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Bowling Green, with the transmitter at Sugar Grove, Kentucky, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Louisville, KY programs it. It covers 20 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIH45 (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
KIH45
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Bowling Green
Transmitter site
Sugar Grove
NWS office
Louisville, KY
Location
37.0896, -86.6348

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
AllenKentucky021003Whole county
BarrenKentucky021009Whole county
ButlerKentucky021031Whole county
ClintonKentucky021053Whole county
CumberlandKentucky021057Whole county
EdmonsonKentucky021061Whole county
GraysonKentucky021085Whole county
GreenKentucky021087Whole county
HartKentucky021099Whole county
LarueKentucky021123Whole county
LoganKentucky021141Whole county
MetcalfeKentucky021169Whole county
MonroeKentucky021171Whole county
MuhlenbergKentucky021177Whole county
OhioKentucky021183Whole county
RussellKentucky021207Whole county
SimpsonKentucky021213Whole county
ToddKentucky021219Whole county
WarrenKentucky021227Whole 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.