Heavy Snow — Meigs, Tennessee

2025-01-10 · Meigs, Tennessee

Event narrative

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.

Wider weather episode

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.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1235286. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.