WXL87: NOAA Weather Radio, Yuma
WXL87 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Yuma, with the transmitter at Black Mtn., California, at 100 W. The National Weather Service office in Phoenix, AZ programs it. It covers 3 counties in Arizona and California.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL87 (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
- WXL87
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 100 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Yuma
- Transmitter site
- Black Mtn.
- State
- California
- NWS office
- Phoenix, AZ
- Location
- 33.0536, -114.8278
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuma | Arizona | 004027 | Whole county |
| Imperial | California | 006025 | Whole county |
| Riverside | California | 006065 | East and south |
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 10:36 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.