Weather radio in Minnesota

WXK43: NOAA Weather Radio, Thief River Falls

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXK43 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Thief River Falls, Minnesota, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Grand Forks, ND programs it. It covers 8 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXK43 (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
WXK43
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Thief River Falls
NWS office
Grand Forks, ND
Location
48.1199, -96.2053

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
BeltramiMinnesota027007Whole county
ClearwaterMinnesota027029Whole county
KittsonMinnesota027069Whole county
MarshallMinnesota027089Whole county
PenningtonMinnesota027113Whole county
PolkMinnesota027119Whole county
Red LakeMinnesota027125Whole county
RoseauMinnesota027135Whole 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 2:36 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.