Weather radio in Florida

WWF38: NOAA Weather Radio, Inverness

162.400 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WWF38 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Inverness, with the transmitter at Lecanto, Florida, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Tampa Bay Area, FL programs it. It covers 5 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WWF38 (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
WWF38
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Inverness
Transmitter site
Lecanto
State
Florida
NWS office
Tampa Bay Area, FL
Location
28.8436, -82.4846

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
CitrusFlorida012017Whole county
HernandoFlorida012053Whole county
LevyFlorida012075Whole county
MarionFlorida012083Whole county
SumterFlorida012119Whole 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.