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Overview
Tune a weather radio to 162.400 MHz to hear WWG71, the NOAA Weather Radio station serving the Morehead area of Kentucky. It carries National Weather Service forecasts and warnings 24 hours a day.
The National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY programs the station and issues the warnings it airs. Its listed transmitter power is 300 watts.
Its signal is meant to serve 4 counties: Bath County, Elliott County, Fleming County and Rowan County. A weather radio with SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) only sounds an alert for the areas you program, so enter the six-digit SAME code for your county from the table below.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bath County | KY | 021011 |
Entire area |
| Elliott County | KY | 021063 |
Entire area |
| Fleming County | KY | 021069 |
Entire area |
| Rowan County | KY | 021205 |
Entire area |
Station details
- Call sign
- WWG71
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz
- Transmitter
- Morehead, KY
- Power
- 300 watts
- NWS office
- Jackson, KY
- Office address
- 1329 Airport Road, Jackson, KY 41339
- Office phone
- 606-666-8000
- Coverage
- 4 counties
- Station page
- weather.gov/nwr
- TV market
- Lexington, KY
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Location
WWG71 at a glance
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz
- Transmitter
- Morehead, KY
- NWS office
- Jackson, KY
- Covers
- 4 counties
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