WWG79: NOAA Weather Radio, West Liberty
WWG79 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from West Liberty, Kentucky, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY programs it. It covers 2 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WWG79 (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
- WWG79
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- West Liberty
- State
- Kentucky
- NWS office
- Jackson, KY
- Location
- 37.9419, -83.2203
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.
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 11:12 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.