KXI90: NOAA Weather Radio, Montrose

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KXI90 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Montrose, with the transmitter at Buckhorn Lakes, Colorado, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Grand Junction, CO programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI90 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.

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The transmitter

Call sign: KXI90
Frequency: 162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power: 300 W
Status: On the air
Station: Montrose
Transmitter site: Buckhorn Lakes
State: Colorado
NWS office: Grand Junction, CO
Location: 38.3381, -107.6383

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
Delta	Colorado	008029	Whole county
Gunnison	Colorado	008051	Southwest 1/4
Montrose	Colorado	008085	Eastern 1/2
Ouray	Colorado	008091	Northern 1/2

Nearby transmitters

Weather radio in Colorado Every transmitter The forecast here Alerts in force in Colorado

Sources

Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 29, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.