Weather radio in Iowa

WXN91: NOAA Weather Radio, Lake Rathbun

162.425 MHz · 301 W · On the air

WXN91 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Lake Rathbun, Iowa, at 301 W. The National Weather Service office in Des Moines, IA programs it. It covers 7 counties in Iowa and Missouri.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXN91 (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
WXN91
Frequency
162.425 MHz (WX4)
Power
301 W
Status
On the air
Station
Lake Rathbun
State
Iowa
NWS office
Des Moines, IA
Location
40.8192, -92.9040

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
AppanooseIowa019007Whole county
DavisIowa019051Whole county
LucasIowa019117Whole county
MonroeIowa019135Whole county
WapelloIowa019179Whole county
WayneIowa019185Whole county
PutnamMissouri029171Whole 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 28, 2026 at 5:51 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.