Winter Weather in Hamblen, Tennessee

Snow began in the early afternoon, generally small flakes. Then between 5 and 630 was a period of light sleet/freezing rain mix, snow then came in and light snow continued until gradually lessening and stopping before 11 PM. Measured total was 2.3 inches of snow with a SWE of 0.28.

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.