Weather radio in Georgia

WXK54: NOAA Weather Radio, Augusta

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXK54 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Augusta, with the transmitter at Wrens, Georgia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Columbia, SC programs it. It covers 21 counties in Georgia and South Carolina.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXK54 (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
WXK54
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Augusta
Transmitter site
Wrens
State
Georgia
NWS office
Columbia, SC
Location
33.2592, -82.2858

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
BurkeGeorgia013033Whole county
ColumbiaGeorgia013073Whole county
EmanuelGeorgia013107Whole county
GlascockGeorgia013125Whole county
HancockGeorgia013141Whole county
JeffersonGeorgia013163Whole county
JenkinsGeorgia013165Whole county
JohnsonGeorgia013167Whole county
LincolnGeorgia013181Whole county
McDuffieGeorgia013189Whole county
RichmondGeorgia013245Whole county
ScrevenGeorgia013251Whole county
TaliaferroGeorgia013265Whole county
WarrenGeorgia013301Whole county
WashingtonGeorgia013303Whole county
WilkesGeorgia013317East
AikenSouth Carolina045003Whole county
AllendaleSouth Carolina045005Whole county
BarnwellSouth Carolina045011Whole county
EdgefieldSouth Carolina045037Whole county
McCormickSouth Carolina045065Whole 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 5:09 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.