KIH53: NOAA Weather Radio, Booneville
KIH53 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Booneville, with the transmitter at Dumas, Mississippi, at 1,060 W. The National Weather Service office in Memphis, TN programs it. It covers 12 counties in Mississippi and Tennessee.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KIH53 (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
- KIH53
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 1,060 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Booneville
- Transmitter site
- Dumas
- State
- Mississippi
- NWS office
- Memphis, TN
- Location
- 34.7095, -88.8436
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alcorn | Mississippi | 028003 | Whole county |
| Benton | Mississippi | 028009 | Whole county |
| Itawamba | Mississippi | 028057 | Whole county |
| Lee | Mississippi | 028081 | Whole county |
| Pontotoc | Mississippi | 028115 | Whole county |
| Prentiss | Mississippi | 028117 | Whole county |
| Tippah | Mississippi | 028139 | Whole county |
| Tishomingo | Mississippi | 028141 | Whole county |
| Union | Mississippi | 028145 | Whole county |
| Hardeman | Tennessee | 047069 | Whole county |
| Hardin | Tennessee | 047071 | Whole county |
| McNairy | Tennessee | 047109 | 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 October 4, 2026 at 3:12 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.