Weather radio in Iowa

KWN47: NOAA Weather Radio, Storm Lake

162.450 MHz · 301 W · On the air

KWN47 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Storm Lake, with the transmitter at Lakeside, Iowa, at 301 W. The National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls, SD programs it. It covers 5 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KWN47 (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
KWN47
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
301 W
Status
On the air
Station
Storm Lake
Transmitter site
Lakeside
State
Iowa
NWS office
Sioux Falls, SD
Location
42.6497, -95.2119

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
Buena VistaIowa019021Whole county
CherokeeIowa019035Whole county
IdaIowa019093Whole county
PocahontasIowa019151Whole county
SacIowa019161Whole 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 29, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.