Weather radio in Minnesota

KJY80: NOAA Weather Radio, Red Wing

162.450 MHz · 359 W · On the air

KJY80 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Red Wing, Minnesota, at 359 W. The National Weather Service office in Twin Cities/Chanhassen, MN programs it. It covers 8 counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KJY80 (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
KJY80
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
359 W
Status
On the air
Station
Red Wing
NWS office
Twin Cities/Chanhassen, MN
Location
44.5241, -92.5764

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
DakotaMinnesota027037Whole county
GoodhueMinnesota027049Whole county
WabashaMinnesota027157Whole county
WashingtonMinnesota027163Whole county
BuffaloWisconsin055011Whole county
PepinWisconsin055091Whole county
PierceWisconsin055093Whole county
St. CroixWisconsin055109Whole 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 30, 2026 at 9:44 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.