KHB34 is a NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) station that serves a part of the South Florida metropolitan area on an assigned frequency of 162.550 MHz; it can also be heard about 60 miles (100 km) east into the Atlantic Ocean, nearly to the Bahamas. Programming originates from NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) weather forecast office (WFO) in Miami, Florida, with the transmitter located in Andover/Miami Gardens. It continuously broadcasts weather and marine forecasts, as well as civil hazards information, for the following counties in the South Florida region: Miami-Dade and Broward. The radio station plays a vital role in alerting the general public to hazardous weather conditions in an area prone to severe weather events such as lightning storms, tornadoes, waterspouts and hurricanes. The sig