Gate City, Virginia Weather
Gate City, Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Gate City, Scott County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Gate City. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Gate City is published on the Tri-Cities Regional TN/VA Airport (KTRI) page, 24 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Gate City have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Gate City: Hawkins County Airport (KRVN) 34 km · Johnson City Airport (K0A4) 39 km · Lonesome Pine Airport (KLNP) 39 km · Elizabethton Municipal Airport (K0A9) 47 km · Virginia Highlands Airport (KVJI) 49 km
Conditions reported at KTRI describe the airfield itself. Weather 24 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Gate City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Gate City.
About Gate City, Virginia
Gate City unfolds in the embrace of rolling Appalachian foothills, where the Clinch River carves a gentle, sinuous path through a landscape painted in shades of deep forest green and earthy browns. It lies 6.3 miles north of Kingsport, TN (from Kingsport, TN: bearing 350°T), and is situated 6.3 miles north-east of Marshall. The air here, especially in the early morning mist that often cloaks the valley floor, carries a damp, cool scent of pine and rich soil, hinting at the fertile ground that sustains the surrounding farms. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy of oaks and maples, falls in broad, golden shafts, illuminating the weathered clapboard houses and the occasional stoic brick building that line the main thoroughfares, giving the impression of a place that has seen its share of seasons and knows the slow, steady pulse of the land. The history of Gate City is deeply entwined with the rugged terrain that surrounds it, a place forged by pioneers seeking opportunity in the fertile valleys and along the vital waterways. Coal mining once echoed through these hills, a significant chapter in Gate City's economic story, though the landscape now leans more towards agriculture, with fields of corn and tobacco yielding their bounty under the broad, open sky. The Scott County Courthouse, a stately structure, stands as a silent sentinel to the generations who have passed through, their lives shaping the character of this community, a character marked by resilience and a quiet, enduring spirit that seems to hum beneath the surface of everyday life.
Live animated radar for Gate City and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Gate City, Scott County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 36.637877°N, 82.580988°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 24251 |
| Area Code | 276 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Gate City, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gate City, Virginia, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Gate City includes coordinates 36.637877°N, 82.580988°W, situated in Scott County. ZIP code 24251. Telephone area code: 276. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
