Weather radio in Florida

KEC38: NOAA Weather Radio, Largo

162.450 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KEC38 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Largo, with the transmitter at Seminole, Florida, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Tampa Bay Area, FL programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KEC38 (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
KEC38
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Largo
Transmitter site
Seminole
State
Florida
NWS office
Tampa Bay Area, FL
Location
27.8481, -82.7633

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
HillsboroughFlorida012057Whole county
ManateeFlorida012081Whole county
PascoFlorida012101Whole county
PinellasFlorida012103Whole 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 26, 2026 at 3:43 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.