Weather radio in Tennessee

KWN53: NOAA Weather Radio, Centerville

162.450 MHz · 308 W · On the air

KWN53 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Centerville, with the transmitter at Hickman County, Tennessee, at 308 W. The National Weather Service office in Nashville, TN programs it. It covers 3 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KWN53 (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
KWN53
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
308 W
Status
On the air
Station
Centerville
Transmitter site
Hickman County
NWS office
Nashville, TN
Location
35.7366, -87.3738

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
HickmanTennessee047081Whole county
LewisTennessee047101Whole county
MauryTennessee047119Whole 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 9:05 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.