KXI21: NOAA Weather Radio, Yankton
KXI21 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Yankton, with the transmitter at Gavins Point Dam, Nebraska, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls, SD programs it. It covers 7 counties in Nebraska and South Dakota.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KXI21 (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
- KXI21
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Yankton
- Transmitter site
- Gavins Point Dam
- State
- Nebraska
- NWS office
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Location
- 42.8421, -97.4846
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar | Nebraska | 031027 | Whole county |
| Knox | Nebraska | 031107 | Whole county |
| Bon Homme | South Dakota | 046009 | Whole county |
| Clay | South Dakota | 046027 | Whole county |
| Hutchinson | South Dakota | 046067 | Whole county |
| Turner | South Dakota | 046125 | Whole county |
| Yankton | South Dakota | 046135 | 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 26, 2026 at 3:43 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.