Weather radio in Iowa

KZZ50: NOAA Weather Radio, Essex

162.550 MHz · 303 W · On the air

KZZ50 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Essex, Iowa, at 303 W. The National Weather Service office in Omaha/Valley, NE programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ50 (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
KZZ50
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
303 W
Status
On the air
Station
Essex
State
Iowa
NWS office
Omaha/Valley, NE
Location
40.8128, -95.2522

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
FremontIowa019071Whole county
MillsIowa019129Whole county
MontgomeryIowa019137Whole county
PageIowa019145Whole 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 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.