Weather radio in Kansas

KEC59: NOAA Weather Radio, Wichita

162.550 MHz · 1,050 W · On the air

KEC59 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Wichita, Kansas, at 1,050 W. The National Weather Service office in Wichita, KS programs it. It covers 10 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KEC59 (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
KEC59
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,050 W
Status
On the air
Station
Wichita
State
Kansas
NWS office
Wichita, KS
Location
37.7506, -97.3037

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
ButlerKansas020015Whole county
CowleyKansas020035Whole county
HarperKansas020077Whole county
HarveyKansas020079Whole county
KingmanKansas020095Whole county
MarionKansas020115Whole county
McPhersonKansas020113Whole county
RenoKansas020155Whole county
SedgwickKansas020173Whole county
SumnerKansas020191Whole 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 26, 2026 at 6:17 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.