Weather radio in Texas

WXK26: NOAA Weather Radio, Laredo

162.475 MHz · 500 W · On the air

WXK26 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Laredo, Texas, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Corpus Christi, TX programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXK26 (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
WXK26
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
500 W
Status
On the air
Station
Laredo
State
Texas
NWS office
Corpus Christi, TX
Location
27.5203, -99.5222

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
WebbTexas048479Whole county
ZapataTexas048505Whole 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 11:46 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.