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Overview
Tune a weather radio to 162.500 MHz to hear KZZ59, the NOAA Weather Radio station serving the Porcupine area of South Dakota. It carries National Weather Service forecasts and warnings 24 hours a day.
The National Weather Service office in Rapid City, SD programs the station and issues the warnings it airs. The transmitter site is listed as Porcupine Butte. Its listed transmitter power is 1,000 watts.
KZZ59 covers 3 counties: Bennett County, Oglala Lakota County and Jackson County (south part). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett County | SD | 046007 |
Entire area |
| Jackson County | SD | 046071 |
South part |
| Oglala Lakota County | SD | 046102 |
Entire area |
Station details
- Call sign
- KZZ59
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz
- Transmitter
- Porcupine, SD
- Transmitter site
- Porcupine Butte
- Power
- 1,000 watts
- NWS office
- Rapid City, SD
- Office address
- 300 East Signal Drive, Rapid City, SD 57701
- Office phone
- 605-341-9271
- Coverage
- 3 counties
- Station page
- weather.gov/nwr
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Location
KZZ59 at a glance
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz
- Transmitter
- Porcupine, SD
- NWS office
- Rapid City, SD
- Covers
- 3 counties
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