WNG549: NOAA Weather Radio, Columbus
WNG549 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Columbus, with the transmitter at Platte County, Nebraska, at 1,020 W. The National Weather Service office in Omaha/Valley, NE programs it. It covers 8 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WNG549 (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
- WNG549
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 1,020 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Columbus
- Transmitter site
- Platte County
- State
- Nebraska
- NWS office
- Omaha/Valley, NE
- Location
- 41.4525, -97.2530
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.
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 30, 2026 at 3:38 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.