High Wind — Southeast Carter, Tennessee

2025-03-05 · Southeast Carter, Tennessee

Event narrative

Several trees were felled by powerful non-thunderstorm mountain wave winds in Roan Mountain State Park.

Wider weather episode

A closed low moving into the Midwest helped intensify a very strong low level jet that brought high end mountain wave winds to the East Tennessee mountains and foothills, with strong non-thunderstorm wind gusts that were sub-warning criteria across much of the Tennessee Valley. An event of this magnitude is typically rare per each winter season. After the passage of the cold front, light snow showers brought light snow and limited impacts to higher elevations of the East Tennessee Mountains.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1244725. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.