WXM73: NOAA Weather Radio, Moorefield
WXM73 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Moorefield, with the transmitter at Branch Mtn., West Virginia, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Baltimore/Washington, VA programs it. It covers 17 counties in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXM73 (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
- WXM73
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 500 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Moorefield
- Transmitter site
- Branch Mtn.
- State
- West Virginia
- NWS office
- Baltimore/Washington, VA
- Location
- 38.9825, -78.9086
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegany | Maryland | 024001 | Whole county |
| Augusta | Virginia | 051015 | Central/N |
| City of Harrisonburg | Virginia | 051660 | Whole county |
| City of Staunton | Virginia | 051790 | Whole county |
| City of Waynesboro | Virginia | 051820 | Whole county |
| City of Winchester | Virginia | 051840 | Whole county |
| Frederick | Virginia | 051069 | Whole county |
| Highland | Virginia | 051091 | Whole county |
| Page | Virginia | 051139 | Whole county |
| Rockingham | Virginia | 051165 | Whole county |
| Shenandoah | Virginia | 051171 | Whole county |
| Grant | West Virginia | 054023 | Whole county |
| Hampshire | West Virginia | 054027 | Whole county |
| Hardy | West Virginia | 054031 | Whole county |
| Mineral | West Virginia | 054057 | Whole county |
| Morgan | West Virginia | 054065 | Whole county |
| Pendleton | West Virginia | 054071 | NE 1/2 |
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 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.