Weather radio in Texas

WWG40: NOAA Weather Radio, Bay City

162.425 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WWG40 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Bay City, Texas, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Houston/Galveston, TX programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WWG40 (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
WWG40
Frequency
162.425 MHz (WX4)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Bay City
State
Texas
NWS office
Houston/Galveston, TX
Location
28.9803, -95.9997

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
BrazoriaTexas048039Whole county
Fort BendTexas048157Whole county
MatagordaTexas048321Whole county
WhartonTexas048481Whole 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.