Weather radio in Tennessee

WXK46: NOAA Weather Radio, Knoxville

162.475 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXK46 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Knoxville, with the transmitter at Sharps Ridge, Tennessee, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Morristown, TN programs it. It covers 16 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXK46 (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
WXK46
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Knoxville
Transmitter site
Sharps Ridge
NWS office
Morristown, TN
Location
35.9991, -83.9497

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
AndersonTennessee047001Whole county
BlountTennessee047009Whole county
CampbellTennessee047013Whole county
ClaiborneTennessee047025Whole county
CockeTennessee047029Whole county
GraingerTennessee047057Whole county
HamblenTennessee047063Whole county
JeffersonTennessee047089Whole county
KnoxTennessee047093Whole county
LoudonTennessee047105Whole county
MonroeTennessee047123Whole county
MorganTennessee047129Whole county
RoaneTennessee047145Whole county
ScottTennessee047151Whole county
SevierTennessee047155Whole county
UnionTennessee047173Whole 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 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.