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NOAA
Weather Radio is a service of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
broadcasting on seven VHF Band frequencies
ranging from 162.400 MHz to 162.550 MHz. These
frequencies are outside the normal AM or FM
broadcast bands, and are therefore not found on
the average home radio.
These broadcasts originate from National Weather
Service Offices across the Unites States and its
territories. As the Voice of the National
Weather Service, more than 400 FM
transmitter sites provide continuous broadcasts
of the latest and up-to-date weather
information.
NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts can be heard as
far away as 40 miles from the antenna site. The
effective range depends on many factors,
particularly the terrain, the quality of the
receiver, and current weather conditions.
The broadcast schedule consists of recorded
messages which are repeated every three to five
minutes and are routinely revised to provide the
latest and up-to-date information. The
broadcasts on NOAA Weather Radio are tailored to
the weather needs of the people within the
receiving area, and include a variety of
programming subjects.
During severe weather and/or other potentially
hazardous events, we interrupt the regularly
scheduled programming to substitute severe
weather information (including warnings,
watches, etc.), and/or other hazardous
informational messages. Special NOAA Weather
Radio receivers can be activated, sounding an
alarm indicating that important information soon
follows, and listeners should monitor their
weather radios for the information. Also, tests
of the warning alarm are normally conducted by
the National Weather Service every Wednesday
between 11:00 AM and Noon.
In extreme cases, NOAA Weather Radio will be
used to alert the public of non-weather related
emergencies, such as earthquakes, toxic or
chemical spills, civil emergencies, national attacks, or nuclear
blasts.
Many local retailers or electronics stores sell
NOAA Weather Radios. Also, many portable radios
are including a weather band as well. With NOAA Weather
Radio, you'll have the most dependable source of
weather information at your fingertips. From
day-to-day weather forecasts, to warnings of
potentially dangerous storms, NOAA Weather Radio
will be ready to alert you 24 hours a day, 365
days a year! Be Ready! Be Prepared! Be a NOAA
Weather Radio listener today.
You may also listen to NOAA Weather Radio
LIVE
on the Internet via Streaming Audio:
NWR
BROADCASTS IN THE WFO LOUISVILLE COUNTY WARNING
AREA
[ a printable map of
local NWR transmitters ]
- KIH41
- 162.400 MHz - Serving East Central
Kentucky, originating from NWS Louisville, with
a transmitter site in Lexington (also
rebroadcast from Madison County on WWF82A,
WWF82B, and WWF82C on 162.525
MHz)
- KIH43
- 162.475 MHz - Serving North Central
Kentucky and South Central Indiana,
originating from NWS Louisville (also
rebroadcast from Elizabethtown on KIH43A on 162.550
MHz, and rebroadcast from a transmitter near
Ekron in Meade County on
KZZ64 on 162.450 MHz)
- KXI40 - 162.550 MHz -
Service Southern Indiana and Northwest
Kentucky, originating from NWS Paducah, with a
transmitter site near Evansville (rebroadcast
on KZZ61, 162.475 MHz, from a
transmitter near Owensboro)
- KIH44
- 162.550 MHz - Serving South Central
Kentucky, originating from NWS Jackson, with a
transmitter site in Somerset.
- KIH45
- 162.400 MHz - Serving South Central
Kentucky, originating from NWS Louisville, with
a transmitter site in Bowling Green (rebroadcast from
a transmitter near Burkesville in Cumberland County on KZZ62
on 162.475 MHz )
- WNG570 - 162.500 MHz -
Serving South Central and Central Kentucky,
originating from NWS Louisville, with a
transmitter site near Horse Cave (rebroadcast
from a transmitter near Campbellsville on KZZ63
on 162.525 MHz )
THE
REGULAR PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE FOR OUR NOAA WEATHER RADIOS
-
Hazardous Weather
Outlook - Weather threats to the
area over the next seven days.
-
The
Regional Weather Synopsis -
Summarizes the weather for the next 12 to 24
hours across the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys,
including Kentucky and Indiana.
-
The
Local 7 Day Forecast - Valid For the
NOAA Weather Radio listening area.
-
The
Hourly Weather Roundup - Summarizes
the current weather conditions for cities
across Kentucky and surrounding states.
-
Climatic
Information - Includes temperatures
and rainfall, climatological normals, and
accumulations.
-
River
Summaries - Stage and forecast
information for the Ohio River as well as
other reservoir and and lake data.
INFORMATION
AS NEEDED
-
Severe
Weather Watches, Warnings, and Advisories
- Important information regarding the
location and movements of severe local
storms.
-
The
NOWCast - A short term forecast
valid for the next 1 to 6 hours. Updated as
often as necessary to reflect changing
weather conditions.
-
Public Information
Statements - Give extra value added
information, such as announcements,
climatological anomalies, etc.
-
Other Information - Including the
UV Index spring through autumn, national
high and low temperature extremes,
and 8 to 14 day long range outlooks.
SPECIFIC
AREA MESSAGE ENCODING (SAME)
The
National Weather Service has made significant improvements to NOAA Weather Radio that
allows listeners to obtain only the warnings,
watches, and other information that they desire
to receive.
This new technology (called SAME) broadcasts the
same information via automated voice, but adds a
digital code that enables specially built receivers to
decode the information and receive only the
information desired by the listener. This way
the listener can receive severe warnings,
watches and statements for only the the county they live
in, or a group of surrounding counties, and not information for
the entire NWR broadcast area.
All current and older model NOAA Weather Radio
receivers will continue to receive all of the
information from the National Weather Service,
but it is only the weather radios with the SAME
capability that can be programmed to receive
only information for specific counties.
Since the SAME codes are fully compatible with
the FCC's Emergency Alert System, it is possible
in the near future that new television sets,
pagers, cellular telephones and other electronic
devices will be able to receive these SAME coded
messages.
If you have purchased a new weather
radio with the SAME capability, and desire to
program it for specific counties in your NOAA
Weather Radio listening area, you will need the proper
county codes (FIPS). A listing of county, SAME
code, and transmitter associations is available
for:
Kentucky
Indiana.
Only the most imminent life- and
property-threatening hazards are broadcasted
with the SAME signal and 1050 Hertz warning
alarm tone, where the public has to take
immediate action to protect themselves and their
property. An operational guideline is that
messages are alerted only for hazards urgent
enough to warrant waking people up in the
"middle of the night" or otherwise interrupting
someone's activities at any time.
The
following messages are always alerted on
a NWR Transmitter if they apply to any part of
its coverage area:
MESSAGE EVENT CODE
- Tornado Warning: TOR
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: SVR
- Flash Flood Warning: FFW
- Tornado Watch: TOA
- Severe Thunderstorm: Watch SVA
- Hurricane Watch: HUA
- Hurricane Warning: HUW
- National Emergency: EAN
The following messages are sometimes alerted
if they apply to the coverage area of the
transmitter, depending on the circumstances.
MESSAGE EVENT CODE
- Severe Weather Statement: SVS
- Flash Flood Watch: FFA
- Winter Storm Warning: WSW
- High Wind Warning: HWW
- Tsunami Watch: TSA
- Tsunami Warning: TSW
- River Flood Watch: FLA
- River Flood Warning: FLW
- Local non-weather Emergencies: CEM
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