NOAA Weather Radio SAME Technology

With Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) technology, life-saving messages broadcast on NWR can be targeted to a specific area. Many NWR products contain a special digital code with information about the type of event, the applicable geographic area for the event, and how long the event is valid. This allows receivers equipped with SAME technology to be programmed by the user to only alarm for weather and other emergency events in specific, desired counties, thereby eliminating unwanted alerts for areas that are not of concern to the listener. You will need the 6-digit SAME codes below for the counties you wish to program into your receiver.

SAME information can be heard audibly as 3 bursts of digital static (click to hear an example) at the beginning of the product transmission, followed by a 10-second broadcast of the 1050 Hz warning alarm tone (click to hear an example) which precedes the voice message part of the broadcast. Many NOAA Weather Radio receiver models can be set to a muted "standby" mode and will turn on when the alerting message is received. Depending on the receiver brand and model, the receiver will either be activated by the SAME code or the 1050 Hz warning alarm tone. Upon activation, some receiver models may have a flashing light or other visual attention signal. In any case, the 10-second 1050 Hertz warning alarm tone serves as an audible attention signal.

County	State	SAME Code
Adams	OH	039001
Auglaize	OH	039011
Brown	OH	039015
Butler	OH	039017
Champaign	OH	039021
Clark	OH	039023
Clermont	OH	039025
Clinton	OH	039027
Darke	OH	039037
Delaware	OH	039041
Fairfield	OH	039045
Fayette	OH	039047
Franklin	OH	039049
Greene	OH	039057
Hamilton	OH	039061
Hardin	OH	039065
Highland	OH	039071
Hocking	OH	039073
Licking	OH	039089
Logan	OH	039091
Madison	OH	039097
Mercer	OH	039107
Miami	OH	039109
Montgomery	OH	039113
Pickaway	OH	039129
Pike	OH	039131
Preble	OH	039135
Ross	OH	039141
Scioto	OH	039145
Shelby	OH	039149
Union	OH	039159
Warren	OH	039165
Dearborn	IN	018029
Fayette	IN	018041
Franklin	IN	018047
Ohio	IN	018115
Ripley	IN	018137
Switzerland	IN	018155
Union	IN	018161
Wayne	IN	018177
Boone	KY	021015
Bracken	KY	021023
Campbell	KY	021037
Carroll	KY	021041
Gallatin	KY	021077
Grant	KY	021081
Kenton	KY	021117
Lewis	KY	021135
Mason	KY	021161
Owen	KY	021187
Pendleton	KY	021191
Robertson	KY	021201

Don't see your county listed above? Click here for a national database of all county SAME codes by state.