Severe Thunderstorm Warning
NWS Morristown TN ยท US
Details
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued September 21 At 6:08PM EDT Until September 21 At 7:00PM EDT By NWS Morristown TN
- Event
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Shelter
Description
Overview
SVRMRX The National Weather Service in Morristown has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Sullivan County in east Tennessee... The City of Bristol in southwestern Virginia... Southeastern Scott County in southwestern Virginia... Southwestern Washington County in southwestern Virginia... * Until 700 PM EDT. * At 608 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Walnut Hill, or 7 miles west of Bristol Tn, moving east at 5 mph.
Hazard
60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted
Kingsport, Bristol Tn, Bristol Va, Walnut Hill, Bluff City, South Holston Dam, Tri-City Airport, Benhams, and Blountville. This includes the following highways... Interstate 81 in Tennessee between mile markers 65 and 75. Interstate 81 in Virginia between mile markers 1 and 7.
Instructions
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Affected areas
- Sullivan County, TN
- Scott County, VA
- Washington County, VA
- City of Bristol, VA
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Morristown TN
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m35s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M3308W4XKJT03ZG6NS9W3P4F
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.c6473e738da639e2689964f850092866e101bf67.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Morristown TN
- AWIPS ID
- CAPMRX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.7283
- WMO heading
- XOUS54
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 54
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SVR |
| NationalWeatherService | SVW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SVRMRX |
| WMOidentifier | WUUS54 KMRX 212208 |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-21T22:08:00-00:00...storm...249DEG...6KT...36.54,-82.34 |
| windThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxWindGust | 60 MPH |
| hailThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxHailSize | 0.75 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KMRX.SV.W.0183.260921T2208Z-260921T2300Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Sullivan County, TN
- Scott County, VA
- Washington County, VA
- City of Bristol, VA
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 047163 |
| SAME | 051169 |
| SAME | 051191 |
| SAME | 051520 |
| UGC | TNC163 |
| UGC | VAC169 |
| UGC | VAC191 |
| UGC | VAC520 |
- Polygons
- 36.47,-82.4 36.62,-82.43 36.73,-82.16 36.47,-82.07 36.47,-82.4