Heavy Snow in Meigs, Tennessee

Heavy snow fell across the county during the day, before transitioning to wintry mix and eventually ending in the evening. A report from Ten Mile covered the storm perfectly: Heavy snow totaled 5.5 inches measured at 3:10 PM when wintry mix began. Last couple hours before 3 PM were the heaviest snowfall rates passing 1 inch per hour. As of 6:05 additional sleet and freezing rain have led the snow to compact to 4 inches with a glaze of ice on top of everything. Temperatures have remained in the 20s during the wintry mix.

Low pressure cyclone passing to the south with upper level forcing induced a broad and significant snowstorm across the region, including East Tennessee, which experienced heavy snowfall. A frontogenesis band across southern Tennessee and northern Georgia helped power higher snowfall rates early into the event across southeastern Tennessee, resulting in locally heavier snowfall before warm air advection brought a changeover in precipitation type to icing and eventually to rain.