Bristol, TN Weather Forecast
Sullivan County, Tennessee
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Bristol, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Bristol, TN at a glance
Bristol is home to about 27,854 people in Sullivan County, across 33 square miles. It ranks 28th by population of 148 places in Tennessee with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Bristol, 5 miles away.
- County
- Sullivan County
- Population
- 27,854 2023 est.
- Land area
- 33 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 852
- Forecast point
- 36.5585°N, 82.2170°W
How well can the network see Bristol?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMRX (Knoxville, TN), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 5,800 ft above Bristol. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Bristol can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KTRI (Bristol/Tri-Cities Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Bristol
- Bristol, VA5 mi
- Elizabethton, TN15 mi
- Abingdon, VA17 mi
- Johnson City, TN17 mi
- Kingsport, TN18 mi
- Jonesborough, TN23 mi
- Unicoi, TN24 mi
- Lebanon, VA25 mi
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