KXI73: NOAA Weather Radio, Backbone Mountain
KXI73 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Backbone Mountain, with the transmitter at Thomas, West Virginia, at 145 W. The National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh, PA programs it. It covers 6 counties in Maryland and West Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KXI73 (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
- KXI73
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 145 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Backbone Mountain
- Transmitter site
- Thomas
- State
- West Virginia
- NWS office
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Location
- 39.1456, -79.5766
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garrett | Maryland | 024023 | Whole county |
| Barbour | West Virginia | 054001 | Whole county |
| Grant | West Virginia | 054023 | Whole county |
| Preston | West Virginia | 054077 | Whole county |
| Randolph | West Virginia | 054083 | Whole county |
| Tucker | West Virginia | 054093 | Whole county |
Nearby transmitters
More
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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 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.