Weather radio in Kentucky

WZ2523: NOAA Weather Radio, Frankfort

162.500 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WZ2523 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Frankfort, Kentucky, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Louisville, KY programs it. It covers 1 county.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WZ2523 (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
WZ2523
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Frankfort
NWS office
Louisville, KY
Location
38.2073, -84.8362

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
FranklinKentucky021073Whole 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 October 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.