WXJ61: NOAA Weather Radio, Avilla
WXJ61 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Avilla, with the transmitter at La Russell, Missouri, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Springfield, MO programs it. It covers 11 counties in Kansas and Missouri.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXJ61 (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
- WXJ61
- Frequency
- 162.425 MHz (WX4)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Avilla
- Transmitter site
- La Russell
- State
- Missouri
- NWS office
- Springfield, MO
- Location
- 37.1642, -94.0053
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee | Kansas | 020021 | Whole county |
| Crawford | Kansas | 020037 | Whole county |
| Barry | Missouri | 029009 | Whole county |
| Barton | Missouri | 029011 | Whole county |
| Cedar | Missouri | 029039 | Whole county |
| Dade | Missouri | 029057 | Whole county |
| Jasper | Missouri | 029097 | Whole county |
| Lawrence | Missouri | 029109 | Whole county |
| McDonald | Missouri | 029119 | Whole county |
| Newton | Missouri | 029145 | Whole county |
| Stone | Missouri | 029209 | 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 October 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.