WXL72: NOAA Weather Radio, Demopolis
WXL72 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Demopolis, with the transmitter at Jefferson, Alabama, at 1,440 W. The National Weather Service office in Birmingham, AL programs it. It covers 12 counties in Alabama and Mississippi.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL72 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.
- On the air
- Degraded
- Off the air
The transmitter
- Call sign
- WXL72
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz (WX3)
- Power
- 1,440 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Demopolis
- Transmitter site
- Jefferson
- State
- Alabama
- NWS office
- Birmingham, AL
- Location
- 32.3624, -87.8752
Counties covered
Program a SAME receiver with the code of your county. Coverage is NWS’s note of the part of a county the signal reaches.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choctaw | Alabama | 001023 | Whole county |
| Clarke | Alabama | 001025 | Whole county |
| Dallas | Alabama | 001047 | Whole county |
| Greene | Alabama | 001063 | Whole county |
| Hale | Alabama | 001065 | Whole county |
| Marengo | Alabama | 001091 | Whole county |
| Perry | Alabama | 001105 | Whole county |
| Sumter | Alabama | 001119 | Whole county |
| Wilcox | Alabama | 001131 | Whole county |
| Clarke | Mississippi | 028023 | Whole county |
| Kemper | Mississippi | 028069 | Whole county |
| Lauderdale | Mississippi | 028075 | Whole county |
Nearby transmitters
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Sources
Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 28, 2026 at 11:12 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.