WZ2543: NOAA Weather Radio, Richlands
WZ2543 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Richlands, with the transmitter at Steeleburg, Virginia, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, VA programs it. It covers 1 county.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WZ2543 (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
- WZ2543
- Frequency
- 162.425 MHz (WX4)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Richlands
- Transmitter site
- Steeleburg
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Blacksburg, VA
- Location
- 37.0683, -81.7706
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tazewell | Virginia | 051185 | 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 11:11 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.