Weather radio in Iowa

KXI68: NOAA Weather Radio, St. Ansgar

162.450 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
Cerro GordoIowa019033Whole county
ChickasawIowa019037Whole county
FloydIowa019067Whole county
HowardIowa019089Whole county
MitchellIowa019131Whole county
WorthIowa019195Whole county
FreebornMinnesota027047Whole county
MowerMinnesota027099Whole 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 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.