WXM71: NOAA Weather Radio, Beckley
WXM71 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Beckley, with the transmitter at Flat Top, West Virginia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Charleston, WV programs it. It covers 10 counties in Virginia and West Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXM71 (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
- WXM71
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Beckley
- Transmitter site
- Flat Top
- State
- West Virginia
- NWS office
- Charleston, WV
- Location
- 37.5906, -81.1150
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 | N |
| Fayette | West Virginia | 054019 | Whole county |
| Greenbrier | West Virginia | 054025 | Whole county |
| McDowell | West Virginia | 054047 | Whole county |
| Mercer | West Virginia | 054055 | Whole county |
| Monroe | West Virginia | 054063 | Whole county |
| Nicholas | West Virginia | 054067 | S 1/2 |
| Raleigh | West Virginia | 054081 | Whole county |
| Summers | West Virginia | 054089 | Whole county |
| Wyoming | West Virginia | 054109 | 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 October 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.