Weather radio in Utah

KEC78: NOAA Weather Radio, Salt Lake City

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KEC78 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Salt Lake City, with the transmitter at Bacchus, Utah, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City, UT programs it. It covers 5 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KEC78 (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
KEC78
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Salt Lake City
Transmitter site
Bacchus
State
Utah
NWS office
Salt Lake City, UT
Location
40.6272, -112.0572

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
Box ElderUtah049003E 1/3
DavisUtah049011Whole county
Salt LakeUtah049035Whole county
UtahUtah049049Central 1/3
WeberUtah049057W and central

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 3:12 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.