WZ2542: NOAA Weather Radio, Santa Maria Spanish
WZ2542 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Santa Maria Spanish, with the transmitter at Santa Maria, 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
WZ2542 (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
- WZ2542
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Santa Maria Spanish
- Transmitter site
- Santa Maria
- State
- Texas
- NWS office
- Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley, TX
- Location
- 26.0814, -97.8283
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.
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 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.