Weather radio in Ohio

WWG56: NOAA Weather Radio, Youngstown

162.500 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WWG56 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Youngstown, Ohio, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Cleveland, OH programs it. It covers 8 counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WWG56 (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
WWG56
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Youngstown
State
Ohio
NWS office
Cleveland, OH
Location
41.0589, -80.6461

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
CarrollOhio039019Whole county
ColumbianaOhio039029Whole county
MahoningOhio039099Whole county
PortageOhio039133Whole county
StarkOhio039151Whole county
TrumbullOhio039155Whole county
LawrencePennsylvania042073Whole county
MercerPennsylvania042085Whole 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 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.