WXL90: NOAA Weather Radio, Des Moines
WXL90 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Des Moines, with the transmitter at Sierra Grande, New Mexico, at 100 W. The National Weather Service office in Albuquerque, NM programs it. It covers 5 counties in New Mexico and Oklahoma.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL90 (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
- WXL90
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 100 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Des Moines
- Transmitter site
- Sierra Grande
- State
- New Mexico
- NWS office
- Albuquerque, NM
- Location
- 36.7056, -103.8767
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colfax | New Mexico | 035007 | Whole county |
| Harding | New Mexico | 035021 | Whole county |
| Mora | New Mexico | 035033 | Whole county |
| Union | New Mexico | 035059 | Whole county |
| Cimarron | Oklahoma | 040025 | West |
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 October 1, 2026 at 10:36 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.