WXN72: NOAA Weather Radio, Merna
WXN72 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Merna, with the transmitter at Broken Bow, Nebraska, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in North Platte, NE programs it. It covers 2 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXN72 (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
- WXN72
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Merna
- Transmitter site
- Broken Bow
- State
- Nebraska
- NWS office
- North Platte, NE
- Location
- 41.3872, -99.8208
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 27, 2026 at 12:52 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.