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WNG639: NOAA Weather Radio for Cherokee Village, Arkansas

WNG639 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Cherokee Village (transmitter at Agnos - Ash Flat), broadcasting on 162.475 MHz at 313 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Little Rock office's broadcast and covers 3 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

CallsignWNG639
Frequency162.475 MHz
TransmitterCherokee Village (transmitter at Agnos - Ash Flat), Arkansas
Power313 watts
Forecast officeNWS Little Rock
StatusNormal (NWS data, July 2026)

Marine radios often label 162.475 MHz as WX3, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties WNG639 covers

CountyStateSAME code
FultonArkansas005049
IzardArkansas005065
SharpArkansas005135

Program the six-digit code into your radio's SAME location list - the SAME code guide walks through it, and how alert radios work explains what the radio does with it.

A radio that will use this code

WNG639 alerts are only useful inside a radio you can program the s codes above into. Two that do it, for two different jobs.

At home, always on

Midland WR120B. Mains desk radio with battery backup. Program the SAME code from the table and it stays silent until your county specifically is warned, then wakes you.

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In the bag or the car

Midland ER310. Crank, solar and USB, with a flashlight. Receives WNG639 the same as anything else; it does not do SAME alerting. The one still working on day three of an outage.

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Hearing WNG639

Any receiver that tunes 162.475 MHz FM can listen: scanners, VHF ham radios, marine sets, or a software-defined receiver. What those do not do is wake you at 3 a.m. - for that you want a dedicated radio with SAME alerting, covered in the buyer's guide.

Every Arkansas transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in Arkansas. Or look any county up with the finder.

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