WZ2500: NOAA Weather Radio, Sand Mtn
WZ2500 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Sand Mtn, with the transmitter at Wythe County, Virginia, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, VA programs it. It covers 11 counties in North Carolina and Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WZ2500 (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
- WZ2500
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Sand Mtn
- Transmitter site
- Wythe County
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Blacksburg, VA
- Location
- 36.9075, -81.0680
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alleghany | North Carolina | 037005 | Whole county |
| Bland | Virginia | 051021 | Whole county |
| Carroll | Virginia | 051035 | Whole county |
| City of Galax | Virginia | 051640 | Whole county |
| City of Radford | Virginia | 051750 | Whole county |
| Giles | Virginia | 051071 | Whole county |
| Grayson | Virginia | 051077 | Whole county |
| Montgomery | Virginia | 051121 | Whole county |
| Pulaski | Virginia | 051155 | Whole county |
| Smyth | Virginia | 051173 | 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 28, 2026 at 11:12 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.