Weather radio in Illinois

KXI46: NOAA Weather Radio, Shelbyville

162.500 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KXI46 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Shelbyville, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln, IL programs it. It covers 5 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI46 (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
KXI46
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Shelbyville
NWS office
Lincoln, IL
Location
39.3061, -88.9356

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
ChristianIllinois017021Whole county
EffinghamIllinois017049Whole county
FayetteIllinois017051Whole county
MoultrieIllinois017139Whole county
ShelbyIllinois017173Whole 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 11:46 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.