Weather radio in Illinois

KXI42: NOAA Weather Radio, Chester

162.450 MHz · 315 W · On the air

KXI42 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Chester, Illinois, at 315 W. The National Weather Service office in St. Louis, MO programs it. It covers 4 counties in Illinois and Missouri.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI42 (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
KXI42
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
315 W
Status
On the air
Station
Chester
NWS office
St. Louis, MO
Location
37.9531, -89.8766

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
PerryIllinois017145Whole county
RandolphIllinois017157Whole county
PerryMissouri029157Whole county
Ste. GenevieveMissouri029186Whole 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 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.