Weather radio in Mississippi

KIH49: NOAA Weather Radio, Meridian

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

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
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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
ChoctawAlabama001023Whole county
SumterAlabama001119Whole county
ClarkeMississippi028023Whole county
CovingtonMississippi028031Whole county
JasperMississippi028061Whole county
JonesMississippi028067Whole county
KemperMississippi028069Whole county
LauderdaleMississippi028075Whole county
NeshobaMississippi028099Whole county
NewtonMississippi028101Whole county
ScottMississippi028123Whole county
SmithMississippi028129Whole county
WayneMississippi028153Whole 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.