Weather radio in Kentucky

WZ2547: NOAA Weather Radio, Edmonton

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WZ2547 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Edmonton, with the transmitter at Metcalfe Co., Kentucky, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Louisville, KY programs it. It covers 6 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WZ2547 (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
WZ2547
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Edmonton
Transmitter site
Metcalfe Co.
NWS office
Louisville, KY
Location
37.0103, -85.6036

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
AdairKentucky021001Whole county
BarrenKentucky021009Whole county
CumberlandKentucky021057Whole county
GreenKentucky021087Whole county
MetcalfeKentucky021169Whole county
MonroeKentucky021171Whole 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 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.