KEC56: NOAA Weather Radio, Dallas
KEC56 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Dallas, Texas, at 1,040 W. The National Weather Service office in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX programs it. It covers 12 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KEC56 (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
- KEC56
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 1,040 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Dallas
- State
- Texas
- NWS office
- Fort Worth-Dallas, TX
- Location
- 32.9013, -96.6872
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosque | Texas | 048035 | Whole county |
| Collin | Texas | 048085 | Whole county |
| Dallas | Texas | 048113 | Whole county |
| Denton | Texas | 048121 | Whole county |
| Ellis | Texas | 048139 | Whole county |
| Hill | Texas | 048217 | Whole county |
| Hood | Texas | 048221 | Whole county |
| Hunt | Texas | 048231 | Whole county |
| Kaufman | Texas | 048257 | Whole county |
| Parker | Texas | 048367 | Whole county |
| Rockwall | Texas | 048397 | Whole county |
| Tarrant | Texas | 048439 | 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 September 26, 2026 at 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.