KXI97: NOAA Weather Radio, Mena
KXI97 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Mena, with the transmitter at Eagle Mtn./Bald Knob, Arkansas, at 307 W. The National Weather Service office in Little Rock, AR programs it. It covers 9 counties in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KXI97 (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
- KXI97
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 307 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Mena
- Transmitter site
- Eagle Mtn./Bald Knob
- State
- Arkansas
- NWS office
- Little Rock, AR
- Location
- 34.4545, -94.1433
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hempstead | Arkansas | 005057 | Whole county |
| Howard | Arkansas | 005061 | Whole county |
| Little River | Arkansas | 005081 | Whole county |
| Montgomery | Arkansas | 005097 | Whole county |
| Pike | Arkansas | 005109 | Whole county |
| Polk | Arkansas | 005113 | Whole county |
| Scott | Arkansas | 005127 | Whole county |
| Sevier | Arkansas | 005133 | Whole county |
| McCurtain | Oklahoma | 040089 | 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 30, 2026 at 9:20 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.