WXK40: NOAA Weather Radio, Mankato
WXK40 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Mankato, with the transmitter at Janesville, Minnesota, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Twin Cities/Chanhassen, MN programs it. It covers 13 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXK40 (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
- WXK40
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Mankato
- Transmitter site
- Janesville
- State
- Minnesota
- NWS office
- Twin Cities/Chanhassen, MN
- Location
- 44.0877, -93.7018
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Earth | Minnesota | 027013 | Whole county |
| Brown | Minnesota | 027015 | Whole county |
| Dodge | Minnesota | 027039 | Whole county |
| Faribault | Minnesota | 027043 | Whole county |
| Freeborn | Minnesota | 027047 | Whole county |
| Le Sueur | Minnesota | 027079 | Whole county |
| Martin | Minnesota | 027091 | Whole county |
| Mower | Minnesota | 027099 | Whole county |
| Nicollet | Minnesota | 027103 | Whole county |
| Rice | Minnesota | 027131 | Whole county |
| Steele | Minnesota | 027147 | Whole county |
| Waseca | Minnesota | 027161 | Whole county |
| Watonwan | Minnesota | 027165 | 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 27, 2026 at 4:04 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.