13-03-2025
NOAA radio station in Newton down with antenna damage ahead of severe weather
NEWTON, Ill. (WCIA) — Severe weather is expected to move through Central Illinois on Friday, but the NOAA weather radio station in Newton may be unavailable for that event after it went offline Thursday.
The National Weather Service for Central Illinois said on Facebook that station KXI_48, operating on a frequency of 162.450 MHz (channel 3), went offline due to damage to an antenna. 10 counties are affected by this outage, including Effingham, Clark and Cumberland Counties.
Officials said crews are working on getting it fixed but in the meantime, people in affected counties can change their channel to tune into he following alternate stations:
Clark County — KXI-47 in Paris, Channel 6
Cumberland County — KXI-49 in Salem, Channel 6
Effingham County — KXI-46 in Shelbyville, Channel 5
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