Weather radio in New Jersey

WXM60: NOAA Weather Radio, Southard

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXM60 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Southard, with the transmitter at Howell Township/Lakewood, New Jersey, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Philadelphia/Mt Holly, NJ programs it. It covers 7 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM60 (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
WXM60
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Southard
Transmitter site
Howell Township/Lakewood
NWS office
Philadelphia/Mt Holly, NJ
Location
40.1399, -74.2242

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
BurlingtonNew Jersey034005Whole county
MercerNew Jersey034021Whole county
MiddlesexNew Jersey034023Whole county
MonmouthNew Jersey034025Whole county
OceanNew Jersey034029Whole county
SomersetNew Jersey034035Whole county
UnionNew Jersey034039Whole 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 30, 2026 at 5:35 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.