Whirlpool refrigerator
showing Temperature Alarm
The refrigerator has stayed above 48°F, or the freezer above 15°F, for more than an hour and a half.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Service indication
- Diagnostic visit
- Source: Whirlpool
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What Temperature Alarm
actually means.
The refrigerator has stayed above 48°F, or the freezer above 15°F, for more than an hour and a half. The beeping stops on its own once the cabinet cools back down, but the light keeps flashing until someone presses Alarm, so a flashing light can mean the warm spell has already passed. If the temperature never comes back down, the cabinet is not keeping up and food is at risk.
Whirlpool refrigerator display · also shown as Over Temperature
What to do when Temperature Alarm shows on the refrigeratorKind of codeService indication
A light or a message asking for a visit. It says that something wants attention, not what, so the visit starts with a diagnosis.
Usually leads toDiagnostic visit
The visit that decides what the repair actually is, before any part is ordered.
Shows up asRefrigerator Showing an Error Code
A code narrows the search, but only the manufacturer's own table gives it meaning.
MakeWhirlpool
The most widely installed freestanding refrigeration in American kitchens.
SourceWhirlpool Product Help (producthelp.whirlpool.com): Temperature Alarm - Refrigerator
The 48°F / 15°F thresholds and 1½-hour delay are the ones Whirlpool gives for its full-size French door and side-by-side models.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Whirlpool's own guidance for Temperature Alarm on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the food first: anything in the fresh food side that sat above 40°F for hours should be judged before it is eaten.
Think back over the last few hours for an outage, a door left open or a big grocery load, any of which can trigger it without a failure.
Press Alarm to clear the light, then watch whether the temperature returns to normal over the next few hours.
If it stays warm or the alarm returns, book a visit and describe how long it has been running warm.
What not to do
It is not a reminder or a mode. It reports that the cabinet actually got warm, and it does not say why.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problem Temperature Alarm tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Read these
before the visit.
Short guides that make the call quicker and the diagnosis cheaper.
All guidesWhirlpool
refrigerators.
The most widely installed freestanding refrigeration in American kitchens.
Whirlpool refrigerator repairMore Whirlpool codes
Service indication on other makes
In Whirlpool's own words
… the refrigerator temperature rises above 48°F (9°C) or the freezer temperature rises above 15°F (-9°C) for more than 1¹⁄₂ hours.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. The 48°F / 15°F thresholds and 1½-hour delay are the ones Whirlpool gives for its full-size French door and side-by-side models.
Whirlpool Temperature Alarm refrigerator repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about Temperature Alarm.
Can I clear Temperature Alarm myself?
Why is my Whirlpool alarm light flashing but the fridge is cold?
What triggers the Whirlpool Temperature Alarm?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Temperature Alarm?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.