WXM49: NOAA Weather Radio, Marion
WXM49 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Marion, with the transmitter at Goreville, Illinois, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Paducah, KY programs it. It covers 13 counties in Illinois and Kentucky.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXM49 (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
- WXM49
- Frequency
- 162.425 MHz (WX4)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Marion
- Transmitter site
- Goreville
- State
- Illinois
- NWS office
- Paducah, KY
- Location
- 37.5572, -89.0233
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander | Illinois | 017003 | Whole county |
| Franklin | Illinois | 017055 | Whole county |
| Hardin | Illinois | 017069 | Whole county |
| Jackson | Illinois | 017077 | Whole county |
| Johnson | Illinois | 017087 | Whole county |
| Massac | Illinois | 017127 | Whole county |
| Perry | Illinois | 017145 | Whole county |
| Pope | Illinois | 017151 | Whole county |
| Pulaski | Illinois | 017153 | Whole county |
| Saline | Illinois | 017165 | Whole county |
| Union | Illinois | 017181 | Whole county |
| Williamson | Illinois | 017199 | Whole county |
| Ballard | Kentucky | 021007 | Whole 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 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.