Weather radio in Kansas

WXK92: NOAA Weather Radio, Ellsworth

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXK92 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Ellsworth, Kansas, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Wichita, KS programs it. It covers 7 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXK92 (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
WXK92
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Ellsworth
State
Kansas
NWS office
Wichita, KS
Location
38.8136, -98.1694

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
BartonKansas020009Whole county
EllsworthKansas020053Whole county
LincolnKansas020105Whole county
McPhersonKansas020113Whole county
RiceKansas020159Whole county
RussellKansas020167Whole county
SalineKansas020169Whole 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.