Weather radio in Illinois

KXI49: NOAA Weather Radio, Salem

162.475 MHz · 1,070 W · On the air

KXI49 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Salem, Illinois, at 1,070 W. The National Weather Service office in St. Louis, MO programs it. It covers 7 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI49 (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
KXI49
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
1,070 W
Status
On the air
Station
Salem
NWS office
St. Louis, MO
Location
38.5439, -88.9245

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
BondIllinois017005Whole county
ClintonIllinois017027Whole county
FayetteIllinois017051Whole county
JeffersonIllinois017081Whole county
MarionIllinois017121Whole county
WashingtonIllinois017189Whole 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.