KXI68: NOAA Weather Radio, St. Ansgar
KXI68 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from St. Ansgar, with the transmitter at Kirkwood & 420th, Iowa, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in La Crosse, WI programs it. It covers 8 counties in Iowa and Minnesota.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KXI68 (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
- KXI68
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- St. Ansgar
- Transmitter site
- Kirkwood & 420th
- State
- Iowa
- NWS office
- La Crosse, WI
- Location
- 43.3722, -92.8331
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.
Nearby transmitters
More
Weather radio in IowaEvery transmitterThe forecast hereAlerts in force in Iowa
Sources
Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.