Weather radio in Indiana

WXM78: NOAA Weather Radio, Bloomington

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXM78 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Bloomington, with the transmitter at Indiana University, Indiana, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Indianapolis, IN programs it. It covers 5 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM78 (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
WXM78
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Bloomington
Transmitter site
Indiana University
State
Indiana
NWS office
Indianapolis, IN
Location
39.1642, -86.5211

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
BrownIndiana018013Whole county
GreeneIndiana018055Whole county
MonroeIndiana018105Whole county
MorganIndiana018109Whole county
OwenIndiana018119Whole 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 30, 2026 at 9:20 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.