KEC65: NOAA Weather Radio, Minneapolis/St. Paul
KEC65 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Minneapolis/St. Paul, with the transmitter at Minneapolis, Minnesota, at 1,020 W. The National Weather Service office in Twin Cities/Chanhassen, MN programs it. It covers 20 counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KEC65 (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
- KEC65
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,020 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Minneapolis/St. Paul
- Transmitter site
- Minneapolis
- State
- Minnesota
- NWS office
- Twin Cities/Chanhassen, MN
- Location
- 44.9689, -93.2078
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anoka | Minnesota | 027003 | Whole county |
| Carver | Minnesota | 027019 | Whole county |
| Chisago | Minnesota | 027025 | S |
| Dakota | Minnesota | 027037 | Whole county |
| Goodhue | Minnesota | 027049 | Whole county |
| Hennepin | Minnesota | 027053 | Whole county |
| Hennepin | Minnesota | 127053 | Whole county |
| Hennepin | Minnesota | 327053 | Whole county |
| Hennepin | Minnesota | 427053 | Whole county |
| Hennepin | Minnesota | 527053 | Whole county |
| Hennepin | Minnesota | 627053 | Whole county |
| Hennepin | Minnesota | 827053 | Whole county |
| Ramsey | Minnesota | 027123 | Whole county |
| Rice | Minnesota | 027131 | Whole county |
| Scott | Minnesota | 027139 | Whole county |
| Washington | Minnesota | 027163 | Whole county |
| Wright | Minnesota | 027171 | Whole county |
| Pierce | Wisconsin | 055093 | Whole county |
| Polk | Wisconsin | 055095 | SW |
| St. Croix | Wisconsin | 055109 | Whole 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 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.