UPDATE: NOAA Weather Radio transmitters back on the air

UPDATE #2, 3:16 a.m.:  All NOAA Weather Radio transmitters are now back on the air.  Kudos to the folks in Paducah for their FAST work!

UPDATE, 2:55 a.m.:  I have added the counties where folks will be affected by these outages this morning.  If you know someone who lives in these areas, call them and let them severe weather IS on its way ... it's just a couple of hours (maybe less) west of us.  They will need to know that the weather radio might not wake them up.

The National Weather Service office in Paducah reports early this morning that several of its NOAA Weather Radio transmitters are down due to mechanical difficulties.

The affected transmitters which serve portions of the Tri-State are:

• KIG76 (162.550 MHz) in Evansville - which serves all or part of Edwards, Wabash and White counties in Southeastern Illinois; Dubois, Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties in Southwestern Indiana; and Henderson and Union counties in Western Kentucky.
  
• WXJ91 (162.525 MHz) in Madisonville - which serves all or part of Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, Lyon, McLean, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg, Union and Webster counties in Western Kentucky.
  
• KXI26 (162.450 MHz) in Hopkinsville - which serves all or part of Christian, Todd and Trigg counties in Western Kentucky.
  

Two additional transmitters in Southeast Missouri are also down.

The Paducah office reports that efforts are underway to get these up and running once again as soon as possible. In the meantime, if you are in an area served by one of these transmitters, be sure to follow another information source such as TV or radio to get the latest severe weather information.