Weather radio in Missouri

WXL99: NOAA Weather Radio, Medill

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXL99 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Medill, with the transmitter at Kahoka, Missouri, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Quad Cities, IA programs it. It covers 8 counties in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXL99 (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
WXL99
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Medill
Transmitter site
Kahoka
NWS office
Quad Cities, IA
Location
40.4428, -91.8056

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
LeeIowa019111Whole county
Van BurenIowa019177Whole county
AdamsIllinois017001NW
HancockIllinois017067Whole county
ClarkMissouri029045Whole county
KnoxMissouri029103Whole county
LewisMissouri029111Whole county
ScotlandMissouri029199Whole 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 29, 2026 at 10:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.