WXK47: NOAA Weather Radio, Bristol
WXK47 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Bristol, with the transmitter at Holston Mtn., Tennessee, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Morristown, TN programs it. It covers 23 counties in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXK47 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.
- On the air
- Degraded
- Off the air
The transmitter
- Call sign
- WXK47
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 500 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Bristol
- Transmitter site
- Holston Mtn.
- State
- Tennessee
- NWS office
- Morristown, TN
- Location
- 36.4429, -82.1203
Counties covered
Program a SAME receiver with the code of your county. Coverage is NWS’s note of the part of a county the signal reaches.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashe | North Carolina | 037009 | Whole county |
| Avery | North Carolina | 037011 | Whole county |
| Madison | North Carolina | 037115 | Whole county |
| Mitchell | North Carolina | 037121 | Whole county |
| Watauga | North Carolina | 037189 | Whole county |
| Yancey | North Carolina | 037199 | Whole county |
| Carter | Tennessee | 047019 | Whole county |
| Cocke | Tennessee | 047029 | Whole county |
| Greene | Tennessee | 047059 | Whole county |
| Hancock | Tennessee | 047067 | Whole county |
| Hawkins | Tennessee | 047073 | Whole county |
| Johnson | Tennessee | 047091 | Whole county |
| Sullivan | Tennessee | 047163 | Whole county |
| Unicoi | Tennessee | 047171 | Whole county |
| Washington | Tennessee | 047179 | Whole county |
| City of Bristol | Virginia | 051520 | Whole county |
| City of Norton | Virginia | 051720 | Whole county |
| Lee | Virginia | 051105 | Whole county |
| Russell | Virginia | 051167 | Whole county |
| Scott | Virginia | 051169 | Whole county |
| Smyth | Virginia | 051173 | Whole county |
| Washington | Virginia | 051191 | Whole county |
| Wise | Virginia | 051195 | Whole county |
Nearby transmitters
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Sources
Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read October 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.