KJY63: NOAA Weather Radio, Forest City
KJY63 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Forest City, with the transmitter at Hancock, Iowa, at 302 W. The National Weather Service office in Des Moines, IA programs it. It covers 9 counties in Iowa and Minnesota.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KJY63 (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
- KJY63
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 302 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Forest City
- Transmitter site
- Hancock
- State
- Iowa
- NWS office
- Des Moines, IA
- Location
- 43.2622, -93.6386
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cerro Gordo | Iowa | 019033 | Whole county |
| Franklin | Iowa | 019069 | Whole county |
| Hancock | Iowa | 019081 | Whole county |
| Kossuth | Iowa | 019109 | Whole county |
| Winnebago | Iowa | 019189 | Whole county |
| Worth | Iowa | 019195 | Whole county |
| Wright | Iowa | 019197 | Whole county |
| Faribault | Minnesota | 027043 | Whole county |
| Freeborn | Minnesota | 027047 | 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 October 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.