Weather radio in Kentucky

WWG61: NOAA Weather Radio, Stanton

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WWG61 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Stanton, with the transmitter at Rotten Point, Kentucky, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WWG61 (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
WWG61
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Stanton
Transmitter site
Rotten Point
NWS office
Jackson, KY
Location
37.9091, -83.9257

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
BellKentucky021013Whole county
PowellKentucky021197Whole 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 30, 2026 at 6:43 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.