NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards
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New NWR Station KPS-505, located in Sumterville (Sumter County), is on the air.
KPS-505 provides much improved weather radio reception to The Villages, and other locations in western Lake County.
KPS-505 will send alarms for Sumter, Marion, Lake, Citrus and Hernando Counties.
The frequency for the new NWR transmitter is 162.500 MHZ (Channel 5 on most receivers).
| The NWR Tone Alert feature and SAME data burst is routinely tested every Wednesday between 11AM and Noon for the Daytona Beach, Orlando, Melbourne and Ft. Pierce stations. In the event of bad weather on the test day, the test will be postponed. We also test between 6PM and 8PM on Wednesday evenings. |
NOAA Weather Radio is THE FASTEST and most reliable means of receiving life-threatening weather information! Click here for a fact sheet (pdf format)
NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards is a service provided by all NWS offices, free of charge, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Routine programming includes the latest weather conditions, weather summaries for the area, short term forecasts of significant weather expected within the next 1-3 hours, and forecasts of temperatures and precipitation. Tropical weather outlooks, hazardous weather outlooks, and marine forecasts are also broadcast.
One of the most important reasons to own a weather radio is the ability to receive up to the second information on severe weather, such as hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, large hail, strong and damaging winds, tornadoes, and flash floods.
Many weather radio receivers are equipped with a tone alert which will be activated the moment severe weather threatens your immediate area, and the new "SAME" (Specific Area Message Encoder) receivers even allow you to select specific areas (counties).
Got a new radio? Need to set it up? Here's some information you'll need for NWR stations which are programmed by the NWS in Melbourne:
FIPS Codes:
| Area |
County Code |
| Lake County |
0 1 2 0 6 9 |
| Volusia County |
0 1 2 1 2 7 |
| Seminole County |
0 1 2 1 1 7 |
| Brevard County |
0 1 2 0 0 9 |
| Orange County |
0 1 2 0 9 5 |
| Osceola County |
0 1 2 0 9 7 |
| Okeechobee County |
0 1 2 0 9 3 |
| Indian River County |
0 1 2 0 6 1 |
| St. Lucie County |
0 1 2 1 1 1 |
| Martin County |
0 1 2 0 8 5 |
| Polk County * |
0 1 2 1 0 5 |
| Putnam ** |
0 1 2 1 0 7 |
| Flagler ** |
0 1 2 0 3 5 |
* Products originate with NWS Tampa Bay, relayed by NWS Melbourne on KIH-63
** Products originate with NWS Jacksonville, relayed by NWS Melbourne on KIH-26
The additional codes, and transmitter locations, for all of Florida are listed here.
Please ensure that the county you are coding into your receiver is actually served by the transmitter you are listening to. Look it up here.
The program for these transmitters is tailored for the geographic areas which the transmitters serve. Please refer to the maps below to view these areas.
You can also look here for a listing, and available map, of all stations in the state of Florida.
Click here for weather radio programming instructions (pdf)
The NWR Tone Alert feature and SAME data burst is routinely tested every Wednesday between 11AM and Noon, for the Daytona Beach, Orlando, Melbourne and Ft. Pierce stations. In the event of bad weather on the test day, the test will be postponed. We also test between 6PM and 8PM on Wednesday evenings.
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