Heavy Snow in Jefferson, Tennessee

Bursts of snow in the afternoon and evening hours with a break for an hour and a half of wintry mix led to an event total snowfall accumulation of 3.5 inches of snow in Chestnut Hill. A White Pine CoCoRaHS observer measured 2.8 inches of snow. Otherwise 2.3 inches of snow were measured in New Market and Piedmont.

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.