Weather radio in Arkansas

KXI96: NOAA Weather Radio, Russell

162.400 MHz · 1,200 W · On the air

KXI96 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Russell, with the transmitter at Bald Knob, Arkansas, at 1,200 W. The National Weather Service office in Little Rock, AR programs it. It covers 8 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI96 (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
KXI96
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,200 W
Status
On the air
Station
Russell
Transmitter site
Bald Knob
NWS office
Little Rock, AR
Location
35.3811, -91.5247

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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
CleburneArkansas005023Whole county
IndependenceArkansas005063Whole county
JacksonArkansas005067Whole county
LonokeArkansas005085Whole county
MonroeArkansas005095Whole county
PrairieArkansas005117Whole county
WhiteArkansas005145Whole county
WoodruffArkansas005147Whole 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 October 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.