KWN59: NOAA Weather Radio, Kirwin
KWN59 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Kirwin, with the transmitter at Phillipsburg, Kansas, at 1,070 W. The National Weather Service office in Hastings, NE programs it. It covers 7 counties in Kansas and Nebraska.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KWN59 (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
- KWN59
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 1,070 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Kirwin
- Transmitter site
- Phillipsburg
- State
- Kansas
- NWS office
- Hastings, NE
- Location
- 39.6036, -99.1217
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 September 30, 2026 at 2:12 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.