Weather radio in Iowa

WXL94: NOAA Weather Radio, Waterloo

162.550 MHz · 900 W · On the air

WXL94 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Waterloo, with the transmitter at Bremer, Iowa, at 900 W. The National Weather Service office in Des Moines, IA programs it. It covers 8 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXL94 (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
WXL94
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
900 W
Status
On the air
Station
Waterloo
Transmitter site
Bremer
State
Iowa
NWS office
Des Moines, IA
Location
42.7726, -92.3768

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
Black HawkIowa019013Whole county
BremerIowa019017Whole county
BuchananIowa019019Whole county
ButlerIowa019023Whole county
ChickasawIowa019037Whole county
FayetteIowa019065Whole county
FloydIowa019067Whole county
GrundyIowa019075Whole 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 9:20 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.