WXK41: NOAA Weather Radio, Rochester
WXK41 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Rochester, with the transmitter at Viola, Minnesota, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in La Crosse, WI programs it. It covers 9 counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXK41 (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
- WXK41
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz (WX3)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Rochester
- Transmitter site
- Viola
- State
- Minnesota
- NWS office
- La Crosse, WI
- Location
- 44.0625, -92.3519
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dodge | Minnesota | 027039 | Whole county |
| Fillmore | Minnesota | 027045 | Whole county |
| Goodhue | Minnesota | 027049 | Whole county |
| Houston | Minnesota | 027055 | Whole county |
| Mower | Minnesota | 027099 | Whole county |
| Olmsted | Minnesota | 027109 | Whole county |
| Wabasha | Minnesota | 027157 | Whole county |
| Winona | Minnesota | 027169 | Whole county |
| Buffalo | Wisconsin | 055011 | 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.