Weather radio in Iowa

KWN48: NOAA Weather Radio, Sanborn

162.525 MHz · 302 W · On the air

KWN48 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Sanborn, Iowa, at 302 W. The National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls, SD programs it. It covers 3 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KWN48 (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
KWN48
Frequency
162.525 MHz (WX7)
Power
302 W
Status
On the air
Station
Sanborn
State
Iowa
NWS office
Sioux Falls, SD
Location
43.1809, -95.6431

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
OBrienIowa019141Whole county
OsceolaIowa019143Whole county
SiouxIowa019167Eastern 1/2

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 5:09 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.