WXL68: NOAA Weather Radio, North Platte
WXL68 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from North Platte, with the transmitter at Sutherland, Nebraska, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in North Platte, NE programs it. It covers 9 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL68 (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
- WXL68
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- North Platte
- Transmitter site
- Sutherland
- State
- Nebraska
- NWS office
- North Platte, NE
- Location
- 41.0211, -101.1525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur | Nebraska | 031005 | Whole county |
| Chase | Nebraska | 031029 | Whole county |
| Frontier | Nebraska | 031063 | Whole county |
| Hayes | Nebraska | 031085 | Whole county |
| Keith | Nebraska | 031101 | Whole county |
| Lincoln | Nebraska | 031111 | Whole county |
| Logan | Nebraska | 031113 | Whole county |
| McPherson | Nebraska | 031117 | Whole county |
| Perkins | Nebraska | 031135 | 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 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.