Weather radio in Illinois

KXI48: NOAA Weather Radio, Newton

162.450 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KXI48 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Newton, Illinois, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln, IL programs it. It covers 10 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI48 (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
KXI48
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Newton
NWS office
Lincoln, IL
Location
38.9641, -88.2231

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
ClarkIllinois017023Whole county
ClayIllinois017025Whole county
CrawfordIllinois017033Whole county
CumberlandIllinois017035Whole county
EdwardsIllinois017047Whole county
EffinghamIllinois017049Whole county
JasperIllinois017079Whole county
LawrenceIllinois017101Whole county
RichlandIllinois017159Whole county
WayneIllinois017191Whole 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.