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Overview
Tune a weather radio to 162.475 MHz to hear WZ2572, the NOAA Weather Radio station serving the Richmond area of Texas. It carries National Weather Service forecasts and warnings 24 hours a day.
The National Weather Service office in Houston/Galveston, TX programs the station and issues the warnings it airs. The transmitter itself stands at Fort Bend County. It transmits with 100 watts of power.
Its signal is meant to serve 1 county: Fort Bend County. A weather radio with SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) only sounds an alert for the areas you program, so enter the six-digit SAME code for your county from the table below.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Bend County | TX | 048157 |
Entire area |
Station details
- Call sign
- WZ2572
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz
- Transmitter
- Richmond, TX
- Transmitter site
- Fort Bend County
- Power
- 100 watts
- NWS office
- Houston/Galveston, TX
- Office address
- 1353 FM646, Dickinson, TX 77539
- Office phone
- 281-337-5074
- Coverage
- 1 county
- Station page
- weather.gov/nwr
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Location
WZ2572 at a glance
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz
- Transmitter
- Richmond, TX
- NWS office
- Houston/Galveston, TX
- Covers
- 1 county
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