Weather radio in Colorado

WXM55: NOAA Weather Radio, Grand Junction

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXM55 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Grand Junction, with the transmitter at Rapid Creek, Colorado, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Grand Junction, CO programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM55 (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
WXM55
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Grand Junction
Transmitter site
Rapid Creek
NWS office
Grand Junction, CO
Location
39.0836, -108.2194

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
GarfieldColorado008045Western 1/2
MesaColorado008077Whole 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 29, 2026 at 10:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.