WXL92: NOAA Weather Radio for Lynchburg, Virginia

WXL92 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Lynchburg (transmitter at Madison Heights), broadcasting on 162.550 MHz at 1000 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Blacksburg office's broadcast and covers 10 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

Callsign	WXL92
Frequency	162.550 MHz
Transmitter	Lynchburg (transmitter at Madison Heights), Virginia
Power	1000 watts
Forecast office	NWS Blacksburg
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 WXL92 covers

County	State	SAME code
Amherst	Virginia	051009
Appomattox	Virginia	051011
Bedford	Virginia	051019
Buckingham	Virginia	051029
Campbell	Virginia	051031
Charlotte	Virginia	051037
City of Lexington	Virginia	051678
City of Lynchburg	Virginia	051680
Prince Edward	Virginia	051147
Rockbridge	Virginia	051163

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 WXL92

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 Virginia transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in Virginia. 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.