Winter Weather — Rutherford, Tennessee

2011-02-09 · Rutherford, Tennessee

Event narrative

One and one half inches of total snowfall accumualtion occurred in Murfreesboro. A newspaper also reported that the Murfressboro Police Department reported 21 car accidents, including 6 with injuries, between 3:30 pm and 6 pm. Additional details concerning actual type of damage associated with the car accidents and damage costs were unknown. This total snowfall accumulation also resulted in closures or postponement of civic engagements across the county for the remainder of that day and night on Wednesday, February 9th, as travel across roads throughout the county became hazardous due to the accumulating snowfall.

Wider weather episode

With temperatures from the afternoon through evening hours remaining in the 20s, there was enough moisture associated with a west to east moving cold frontal passage and southwesterly upper level flow aloft, across the mid state for a significant snowfall event to occur across all of Middle Tennessee on Wednesday, February 9th. Total snowfall accumulations ranged from one half of an inch to five inches across northern portions of the Cumberland Plateau.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 283027. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.