WXK61: NOAA Weather Radio, Cookeville
WXK61 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Cookeville, with the transmitter at Anderson, Tennessee, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Nashville, TN programs it. It covers 12 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXK61 (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
- WXK61
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Cookeville
- Transmitter site
- Anderson
- State
- Tennessee
- NWS office
- Nashville, TN
- Location
- 36.1713, -85.2313
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clay | Tennessee | 047027 | Whole county |
| Cumberland | Tennessee | 047035 | Whole county |
| DeKalb | Tennessee | 047041 | Whole county |
| Fentress | Tennessee | 047049 | Whole county |
| Jackson | Tennessee | 047087 | Whole county |
| Overton | Tennessee | 047133 | Whole county |
| Pickett | Tennessee | 047137 | Whole county |
| Putnam | Tennessee | 047141 | Whole county |
| Smith | Tennessee | 047159 | Whole county |
| Trousdale | Tennessee | 047169 | Whole county |
| Van Buren | Tennessee | 047175 | Central & east |
| White | Tennessee | 047185 | 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 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.