Winter Weather in Northwest Carter, Tennessee

Winter Weather December 2, 2024 – December 3, 2024 · Northwest Carter, Tennessee

What the National Weather Service wrote

A light snow event resulted in 2 inches of snow measured in Sadie, and the CO-OP observer in Elizabethton reported 0.8 inches of snowfall.

The wider storm

A shortwave trough, embedded in a larger longwave upper trough, was the lifting source necessary to produce a light snow in the valley and ridges of northeastern Tennessee. Orographic lifting helped produce heavy snow in higher elevations of the mountains of East Tennessee.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1226489. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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