Weather radio in Iowa

KXI98: NOAA Weather Radio, Marshalltown

162.500 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KXI98 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Marshalltown, Iowa, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Des Moines, IA programs it. It covers 7 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI98 (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
KXI98
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Marshalltown
State
Iowa
NWS office
Des Moines, IA
Location
42.0475, -92.8617

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
GrundyIowa019075Whole county
HardinIowa019083Whole county
JasperIowa019099Whole county
MarshallIowa019127Whole county
PoweshiekIowa019157Whole county
StoryIowa019169Whole county
TamaIowa019171Whole 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.