WXL62: NOAA Weather Radio, Sioux City
WXL62 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Sioux City, with the transmitter at Lawton, Iowa, at 1,090 W. The National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls, SD programs it. It covers 11 counties in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL62 (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
- WXL62
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz (WX3)
- Power
- 1,090 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Sioux City
- Transmitter site
- Lawton
- State
- Iowa
- NWS office
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Location
- 42.4821, -96.2583
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee | Iowa | 019035 | Whole county |
| Ida | Iowa | 019093 | Whole county |
| Monona | Iowa | 019133 | Whole county |
| OBrien | Iowa | 019141 | Whole county |
| Plymouth | Iowa | 019149 | Whole county |
| Sioux | Iowa | 019167 | Whole county |
| Woodbury | Iowa | 019193 | Whole county |
| Dakota | Nebraska | 031043 | Whole county |
| Dixon | Nebraska | 031051 | Whole county |
| Thurston | Nebraska | 031173 | Whole county |
| Union | South Dakota | 046127 | Whole 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 30, 2026 at 9:44 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.