KZZ68: NOAA Weather Radio, Van Wert
KZZ68 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Van Wert, with the transmitter at Osceola, Iowa, at 309 W. The National Weather Service office in Des Moines, IA programs it. It covers 8 counties in Iowa and Missouri.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KZZ68 (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
- KZZ68
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz (WX3)
- Power
- 309 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Van Wert
- Transmitter site
- Osceola
- State
- Iowa
- NWS office
- Des Moines, IA
- Location
- 40.8681, -93.8048
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
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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 9:51 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.