Weather radio in Louisiana

KHB42: NOAA Weather Radio, Lake Charles

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KHB42 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Lake Charles, with the transmitter at Westlake, Louisiana, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Lake Charles, LA programs it. It covers 5 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KHB42 (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
KHB42
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Lake Charles
Transmitter site
Westlake
NWS office
Lake Charles, LA
Location
30.2212, -93.3114

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
AllenLouisiana022003Whole county
BeauregardLouisiana022011Whole county
CalcasieuLouisiana022019Whole county
CameronLouisiana022023Whole county
Jefferson DavisLouisiana022053Whole 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 10:07 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.