KWO35: NOAA Weather Radio for New York City, New York

KWO35 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at New York City (transmitter at Empire State Building), broadcasting on 162.550 MHz at 1000 watts. It carries the National Weather Service New York office's broadcast and covers 24 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

Callsign	KWO35
Frequency	162.550 MHz
Transmitter	New York City (transmitter at Empire State Building), New York
Power	1000 watts
Forecast office	NWS New York
Status	Normal (NWS data, July 2026)

Marine radios often label 162.550 MHz as WX1, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties KWO35 covers

County	State	SAME code	Note
Fairfield	Connecticut	009001	SW
Bergen	New Jersey	034003	ALL
Essex	New Jersey	034013	ALL
Hudson	New Jersey	034017	ALL
Hunterdon	New Jersey	034019	ALL
Middlesex	New Jersey	034023	CENTRAL/E
Monmouth	New Jersey	034025	EXCEPT SW
Morris	New Jersey	034027	ALL
Passaic	New Jersey	034031	EXCEPT NW
Somerset	New Jersey	034035	ALL
Sussex	New Jersey	034037	ALL
Union	New Jersey	034039	ALL
Warren	New Jersey	034041	ALL
Bronx	New York	036005	ALL
Kings	New York	036047	ALL
Nassau	New York	036059	ALL
New York	New York	036061	ALL
Orange	New York	036071	ALL
Putnam	New York	036079	ALL
Queens	New York	036081	ALL
Richmond	New York	036085	ALL
Rockland	New York	036087	ALL
Suffolk	New York	036103	W
Westchester	New York	036119	ALL

A county marked with a note (for example partial coverage) is served for that portion only. 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.

Hearing KWO35

Any receiver that tunes 162.550 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 New York transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in New York. Or look any county up with the finder.

Sources:

“NWR County Coverage Listings”. weather.gov. Archived from the original on 2026-07-19. Retrieved 2026-07-16. Every figure on this page - frequency, transmitter site, power, operational status, and county SAME codes - is from this dataset. Transmitters move, change power, and go down for maintenance; verify locally before you rely on it.