Heavy Snow — Northwest Cocke, Tennessee

2025-01-10 to 2025-01-11 · Northwest Cocke, Tennessee

Event narrative

Snow, likely interrupted at times with wintry mix, led to heavy snow reports in Cocke County. All reports were received on Facebook: 5.5 inches of snow in Newport, 3 inches in Cosby, and 3 inches of snow in Del Rio.

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 1235936. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.