Weather radio in Texas

WXJ49: NOAA Weather Radio, Texarkana

162.550 MHz · 500 W · On the air

WXJ49 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Texarkana, Texas, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Shreveport, LA programs it. It covers 12 counties in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXJ49 (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
WXJ49
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
500 W
Status
On the air
Station
Texarkana
State
Texas
NWS office
Shreveport, LA
Location
33.4480, -94.0668

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
ColumbiaArkansas005027Whole county
HempsteadArkansas005057Whole county
HowardArkansas005061Whole county
LafayetteArkansas005073Whole county
Little RiverArkansas005081Whole county
MillerArkansas005091Whole county
NevadaArkansas005099Whole county
PikeArkansas005109Whole county
SevierArkansas005133Whole county
McCurtainOklahoma040089Whole county
BowieTexas048037Whole county
CassTexas048067Whole 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 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.