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WXK62: NOAA Weather Radio for Waverly, Tennessee

WXK62 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Waverly (transmitter at McEwen), broadcasting on 162.400 MHz at 1000 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Nashville office's broadcast and covers 8 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

CallsignWXK62
Frequency162.400 MHz
TransmitterWaverly (transmitter at McEwen), Tennessee
Power1000 watts
Forecast officeNWS Nashville
StatusNormal (NWS data, July 2026)

Marine radios often label 162.400 MHz as WX2, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties WXK62 covers

CountyStateSAME code
BentonTennessee047005
DicksonTennessee047043
HickmanTennessee047081
HoustonTennessee047083
HumphreysTennessee047085
LewisTennessee047101
PerryTennessee047135
StewartTennessee047161

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

WXK62 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 WXK62 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 WXK62

Any receiver that tunes 162.400 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 Tennessee transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in Tennessee. Or look any county up with the finder.

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