WNG689: NOAA Weather Radio, Hebron

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WNG689 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Hebron, with the transmitter at Porter County, Indiana, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Chicago, IL programs it. It covers 7 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WNG689 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.

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The transmitter

Call sign: WNG689
Frequency: 162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power: 300 W
Status: On the air
Station: Hebron
Transmitter site: Porter County
State: Indiana
NWS office: Chicago, IL
Location: 41.3536, -87.1853

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
Jasper	Indiana	018073	Whole county
La Porte	Indiana	018091	Whole county
Lake	Indiana	018089	Whole county
Newton	Indiana	018111	Whole county
Porter	Indiana	018127	Whole county
Pulaski	Indiana	018131	Whole county
Starke	Indiana	018149	Whole county

Nearby transmitters

Weather radio in Indiana Every transmitter The forecast here Alerts in force in Indiana

Sources

Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read October 3, 2026 at 8:37 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.