KIH49: NOAA Weather Radio, Meridian
KIH49 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Meridian, with the transmitter at Rose Hill, Mississippi, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, MS programs it. It covers 13 counties in Alabama and Mississippi.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KIH49 (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
- KIH49
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Meridian
- Transmitter site
- Rose Hill
- State
- Mississippi
- NWS office
- Jackson, MS
- Location
- 32.1386, -89.0937
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choctaw | Alabama | 001023 | Whole county |
| Sumter | Alabama | 001119 | Whole county |
| Clarke | Mississippi | 028023 | Whole county |
| Covington | Mississippi | 028031 | Whole county |
| Jasper | Mississippi | 028061 | Whole county |
| Jones | Mississippi | 028067 | Whole county |
| Kemper | Mississippi | 028069 | Whole county |
| Lauderdale | Mississippi | 028075 | Whole county |
| Neshoba | Mississippi | 028099 | Whole county |
| Newton | Mississippi | 028101 | Whole county |
| Scott | Mississippi | 028123 | Whole county |
| Smith | Mississippi | 028129 | Whole county |
| Wayne | Mississippi | 028153 | Whole 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 29, 2026 at 10:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.