WXJ50: NOAA Weather Radio, Fort Smith
WXJ50 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Fort Smith, with the transmitter at Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas, at 750 W. The National Weather Service office in Tulsa, OK programs it. It covers 8 counties in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXJ50 (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
- WXJ50
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 750 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Fort Smith
- Transmitter site
- Ft. Chaffee
- State
- Arkansas
- NWS office
- Tulsa, OK
- Location
- 35.2944, -94.3053
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.
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 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.