Weather radio in Missouri

WXM81: NOAA Weather Radio, Hermitage

162.450 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXM81 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Hermitage, with the transmitter at Lake PomDeTerre, Missouri, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Springfield, MO programs it. It covers 3 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM81 (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
WXM81
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Hermitage
Transmitter site
Lake PomDeTerre
NWS office
Springfield, MO
Location
37.9054, -93.3170

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
DallasMissouri029059Whole county
HickoryMissouri029085Whole county
PolkMissouri029167Whole 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.