WXL74: NOAA Weather Radio, Grand Island
WXL74 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Grand Island, with the transmitter at Giltner, Nebraska, at 750 W. The National Weather Service office in Hastings, NE programs it. It covers 12 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL74 (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
- WXL74
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 750 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Grand Island
- Transmitter site
- Giltner
- State
- Nebraska
- NWS office
- Hastings, NE
- Location
- 40.7722, -98.0895
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | Nebraska | 031001 | Whole county |
| Buffalo | Nebraska | 031019 | Whole county |
| Clay | Nebraska | 031035 | Whole county |
| Fillmore | Nebraska | 031059 | Whole county |
| Hall | Nebraska | 031079 | Whole county |
| Hamilton | Nebraska | 031081 | Whole county |
| Howard | Nebraska | 031093 | Whole county |
| Merrick | Nebraska | 031121 | Whole county |
| Nance | Nebraska | 031125 | Whole county |
| Polk | Nebraska | 031143 | Whole county |
| Sherman | Nebraska | 031163 | Whole county |
| York | Nebraska | 031185 | 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 28, 2026 at 1:53 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.