KAE42: NOAA Weather Radio, Providence Forge
KAE42 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Providence Forge, with the transmitter at New Kent County, Virginia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Wakefield, VA programs it. It covers 16 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KAE42 (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
- KAE42
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Providence Forge
- Transmitter site
- New Kent County
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Wakefield, VA
- Location
- 37.4906, -77.0569
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles City | Virginia | 051036 | Whole county |
| City of Hopewell | Virginia | 051670 | Whole county |
| City of Richmond | Virginia | 051760 | Whole county |
| City of Williamsburg | Virginia | 051830 | Whole county |
| Essex | Virginia | 051057 | Whole county |
| Gloucester | Virginia | 051073 | Whole county |
| Hanover | Virginia | 051085 | Whole county |
| Henrico | Virginia | 051087 | Whole county |
| James City | Virginia | 051095 | Whole county |
| King and Queen | Virginia | 051097 | Whole county |
| King William | Virginia | 051101 | Whole county |
| Middlesex | Virginia | 051119 | Whole county |
| New Kent | Virginia | 051127 | Whole county |
| Prince George | Virginia | 051149 | Whole county |
| Surry | Virginia | 051181 | Whole county |
| York | Virginia | 051199 | 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 26, 2026 at 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.