Weather radio in Colorado

WXM56: NOAA Weather Radio, Colorado Springs

162.475 MHz · 100 W · On the air

WXM56 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Colorado Springs, with the transmitter at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, at 100 W. The National Weather Service office in Pueblo, CO programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM56 (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
WXM56
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
100 W
Status
On the air
Station
Colorado Springs
Transmitter site
Cheyenne Mountain
NWS office
Pueblo, CO
Location
38.7425, -104.8647

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
El PasoColorado008041Whole county
TellerColorado008119Eastern 1/4

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 1:59 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.