WXL61: NOAA Weather Radio, Cedar Rapids
WXL61 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Quad Cities, IA programs it. It covers 9 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL61 (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
- WXL61
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz (WX3)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Cedar Rapids
- State
- Iowa
- NWS office
- Quad Cities, IA
- Location
- 41.9092, -91.6547
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 October 1, 2026 at 3:52 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.