Weather radio in Kentucky

KXI26: NOAA Weather Radio, Hopkinsville

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KXI26 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Paducah, KY programs it. It covers 3 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI26 (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
KXI26
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Hopkinsville
NWS office
Paducah, KY
Location
36.8794, -87.5047

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
ChristianKentucky021047Whole county
ToddKentucky021219Whole county
TriggKentucky021221Whole 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 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.