WXL83: NOAA Weather Radio, Minot
WXL83 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Minot, with the transmitter at South Prarie, North Dakota, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Bismarck, ND programs it. It covers 9 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL83 (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
- WXL83
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Minot
- Transmitter site
- South Prarie
- State
- North Dakota
- NWS office
- Bismarck, ND
- Location
- 48.0508, -101.3900
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottineau | North Dakota | 038009 | Whole county |
| Burke | North Dakota | 038013 | Whole county |
| McHenry | North Dakota | 038049 | Whole county |
| McLean | North Dakota | 038055 | Whole county |
| Mountrail | North Dakota | 038061 | Whole county |
| Pierce | North Dakota | 038069 | Whole county |
| Renville | North Dakota | 038075 | Whole county |
| Rolette | North Dakota | 038079 | Whole county |
| Ward | North Dakota | 038101 | 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 October 2, 2026 at 1:38 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.