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title: "Whirlpool-built Kenmore refrigerator signal Temperature alarm"
description: "Whirlpool-built Kenmore refrigerator signal Temperature alarm — temperature alarm is an indicator rather than an error."
url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/error-codes/whirlpool-refrigerator-temperature-alarm/"
date_modified: "2026-09-01"
Appliance type: "Freezers, Refrigerators"
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# Whirlpool-built Kenmore refrigerator signal Temperature alarm

### Whose code this actually is

Kenmore did not write Temperature alarm, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is Whirlpool’s, and it appears on the refrigerator that Whirlpool built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Four different manufacturers built refrigerators under this badge, and several of them use an F with a number for unrelated conditions. That is the single most convincing way to reach the wrong component.

### What the appliance is telling you

Whirlpool's own thresholds: it alerts when the refrigerator rises above 48°F or the freezer above a set point.

This one is an indicator rather than an error. It is published in the same table as genuine problems, and treating it as one is how a working appliance gets a service call.

### Which Kenmore models can raise it

The Kenmore refrigerator whose model number begins 106 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are Whirlpool’s, which is why Whirlpool’s table is the one that applies to Temperature alarm and no other manufacturer’s does.

### What happens next

- A door left open, a big warm load, or a genuine cooling problem — in that order of likelihood.
- If it clears in a few hours and does not come back, it was the load. If it keeps returning, call.

### Where this usually goes

The job this most often becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore refrigerator in this humidity hands its defrost circuit more work than it was sized for, and in a Miami kitchen a floor-level condenser blocks well ahead of any published interval. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears Temperature alarm, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis.

### Where this meaning came from

Whirlpool’s own documentation: *Refrigerator display and indicator guide — Whirlpool Product Help*. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer’s document instead.

What the machine is telling you

Whose code this actually is

Kenmore did not write Temperature alarm, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is Whirlpool’s, and it appears on the refrigerator that Whirlpool built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Four different manufacturers built refrigerators under this badge, and several of them use an F with a number for unrelated conditions. That is the single most convincing way to reach the wrong component.

What the appliance is telling you

Whirlpool's own thresholds: it alerts when the refrigerator rises above 48°F or the freezer above a set point.

This one is an indicator rather than an error. It is published in the same table as genuine problems, and treating it as one is how a working appliance gets a service call.

Which Kenmore models can raise it

The Kenmore refrigerator whose model number begins 106 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are Whirlpool’s, which is why Whirlpool’s table is the one that applies to Temperature alarm and no other manufacturer’s does.

What happens next

A door left open, a big warm load, or a genuine cooling problem — in that order of likelihood.

If it clears in a few hours and does not come back, it was the load. If it keeps returning, call.

Where this usually goes

The job this most often becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore refrigerator in this humidity hands its defrost circuit more work than it was sized for, and in a Miami kitchen a floor-level condenser blocks well ahead of any published interval. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears Temperature alarm, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis.

Where this meaning came from

Whirlpool’s own documentation: Refrigerator display and indicator guide — Whirlpool Product Help. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer’s document instead.

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