Weather radio in Kentucky

WWG71: NOAA Weather Radio, Morehead

162.400 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WWG71 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Morehead, Kentucky, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WWG71 (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
WWG71
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Morehead
NWS office
Jackson, KY
Location
38.1773, -83.4047

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
BathKentucky021011Whole county
ElliottKentucky021063Whole county
FlemingKentucky021069Whole county
RowanKentucky021205Whole 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 4:56 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.