Heavy Snow in Southeast Carter, Tennessee

Heavy Snow December 5, 2018 · Southeast Carter, Tennessee

What the National Weather Service wrote

Three inches of snow was measured at Roan Mountain State Park.

The wider storm

A weak upper level trough and associated moisture was lifted in a pattern that favored snowfall on northwest favored slopes as the prevailing northwesterly flow lifted the moist air over the mountains of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 792843. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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