Heavy Snow in Northwest Cocke, Tennessee

Heavy Snow February 8, 2016 – February 9, 2016 · Northwest Cocke, Tennessee

What the National Weather Service wrote

Three inches of snow was measured at Parrottsville.

The wider storm

Sub-freezing air spilled south through the Eastern United States for a two day period of mainly orographic snowfall as several shorter wavelength systems dropped southeast out of the Northern Plains and Great Lakes. The snow accumulated to a depth of three to five inches on average however, some greater snowfall totals occurred primarily in the highest terrain across Southwest Virginia and in the Smoky Mountains.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 617325. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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