NOAA Weather Radio WNG536 DeKalb, IL

WNG-536 DeKalb, 162.550 MHz

NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio station WNG-536 serves DeKalb county, from a 300 Watt transmitter in DeKalb, Illinois. The new transmitter is located on a tower provided by Northern Illinois University's Department of Environmental Health and Safety. Continuous 24 hour programming is provided from the National Weather Service Chicago Forecast Office, located southwest of Chicago in Romeoville Illinois.

In the map below, the counties shaded in blue are the counties which will tone alarm during severe weather watches and warnings on WNG-536. Specific Area Message Encoder codes are also shown for each county. Tone alarm tests for the DeKalb radio occur each WEDNESDAY at approximately 11 AM.

County

DeKalb

Boone

Winnebago

Ogle

Lee

Kane

SAME code

017037
017007
017201
017141
017103
017089

Signal coverage area map

Broadcast Cycle

Station ID Message
Hazardous Weather Outlook	6 AM to 8 AM, and 4 PM to 6 PM, or more often as needed
Regional Weather Synopsis	updated around 430 AM and 430 PM, or as needed
Hourly Temperature Roundup	updated between 5 and 10 min past the hour
Short Term Forecast	only when precipitation or active weather is near North Central Illinois
DeKalb Area Forecast	updated 4 AM and 4 PM and as needed
Rockford Climate Summary	6 AM to 10 am, and 430 PM to 7 PM
River Stages	for the Rock and Pecatonica Rivers (during the warm season)
Severe Weather and other special programming during "active" weather