Weather radio in Iowa

KXI62: NOAA Weather Radio, Montezuma

162.450 MHz · 299 W · On the air

KXI62 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Montezuma, Iowa, at 299 W. The National Weather Service office in Des Moines, IA programs it. It covers 7 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI62 (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
KXI62
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
299 W
Status
On the air
Station
Montezuma
State
Iowa
NWS office
Des Moines, IA
Location
41.6108, -92.5627

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
IowaIowa019095West
JasperIowa019099Whole county
KeokukIowa019107Northwest
MahaskaIowa019123Whole county
MarionIowa019125Whole county
PoweshiekIowa019157Whole county
TamaIowa019171South

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 6:37 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.