Weather radio in Texas

WZ2541: NOAA Weather Radio, Pharr Spanish

162.475 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WZ2541 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Pharr Spanish, with the transmitter at Pharr, Texas, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley, TX programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WZ2541 (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
WZ2541
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Pharr Spanish
Transmitter site
Pharr
State
Texas
NWS office
Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley, TX
Location
26.1861, -98.1886

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
CameronTexas048061Whole county
HidalgoTexas048215Whole county
StarrTexas048427Whole county
WillacyTexas048489Whole 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.