Weather radio in Nebraska

WXL74: NOAA Weather Radio, Grand Island

162.400 MHz · 750 W · On the air

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
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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
AdamsNebraska031001Whole county
BuffaloNebraska031019Whole county
ClayNebraska031035Whole county
FillmoreNebraska031059Whole county
HallNebraska031079Whole county
HamiltonNebraska031081Whole county
HowardNebraska031093Whole county
MerrickNebraska031121Whole county
NanceNebraska031125Whole county
PolkNebraska031143Whole county
ShermanNebraska031163Whole county
YorkNebraska031185Whole 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.