WXL60: NOAA Weather Radio, Roanoke
WXL60 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Roanoke, with the transmitter at Poor Mtn., Virginia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, VA programs it. It covers 29 counties in North Carolina and Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL60 (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
- WXL60
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz (WX3)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Roanoke
- Transmitter site
- Poor Mtn.
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Blacksburg, VA
- Location
- 37.1992, -80.1494
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caswell | North Carolina | 037033 | Whole county |
| Rockingham | North Carolina | 037157 | Whole county |
| Alleghany | Virginia | 051005 | Whole county |
| Bedford | Virginia | 051019 | Whole county |
| Bland | Virginia | 051021 | Whole county |
| Botetourt | Virginia | 051023 | Whole county |
| Carroll | Virginia | 051035 | Whole county |
| City of Buena Vista | Virginia | 051530 | Whole county |
| City of Covington | Virginia | 051580 | Whole county |
| City of Danville | Virginia | 051590 | Whole county |
| City of Galax | Virginia | 051640 | Whole county |
| City of Lexington | Virginia | 051678 | Whole county |
| City of Martinsville | Virginia | 051690 | Whole county |
| City of Radford | Virginia | 051750 | Whole county |
| City of Roanoke | Virginia | 051770 | Whole county |
| City of Salem | Virginia | 051775 | Whole county |
| Craig | Virginia | 051045 | Whole county |
| Floyd | Virginia | 051063 | Whole county |
| Franklin | Virginia | 051067 | Whole county |
| Giles | Virginia | 051071 | Whole county |
| Halifax | Virginia | 051083 | Whole county |
| Henry | Virginia | 051089 | Whole county |
| Montgomery | Virginia | 051121 | Whole county |
| Patrick | Virginia | 051141 | Whole county |
| Pittsylvania | Virginia | 051143 | Whole county |
| Pulaski | Virginia | 051155 | Whole county |
| Roanoke | Virginia | 051161 | Whole county |
| Rockbridge | Virginia | 051163 | Whole county |
| Wythe | Virginia | 051197 | Whole 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 29, 2026 at 12:04 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.