Weather radio in Illinois

KXI52: NOAA Weather Radio, McLeansboro

162.400 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KXI52 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from McLeansboro, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Paducah, KY programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI52 (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
KXI52
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
McLeansboro
NWS office
Paducah, KY
Location
38.1139, -88.5458

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
GallatinIllinois017059Whole county
HamiltonIllinois017065Whole county
SalineIllinois017165Whole county
WhiteIllinois017193Whole 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 3:12 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.