Freezing rain fell across portions of the county.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
Freezing rain fell across portions of the county.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 15, 2:44 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 244 PM CST MON DEC 15 2008 .SHORT TERM...(THRU WED NITE) CURRENT...CLOUDY RAINY DAY WITH TEMPS PLUNGING AFTER FROPA. ALREADY 28 AT CKV...BUT PRECIP HAS ENDED THERE MOMENTARILY. NEXT BATCH ALREADY INCREASING IN STRENGTH/COVERAGE W AR-S IN. THIS BATCH WILL MOVE INTO MID STATE OVERNITE...AND EXPECTING A MESS WITH ZR. LOOKING AT NEW TEMP PROFILES...WILL INCLUDE A FEW MORE SW AND SCNTRL COUNTIES IN ADVISORY...AND CONTINUE WARNING FOR NW. THIS WILL DIMINISH BY MID TO LATE MORNING TUE...AFTER WHICH TEMPS WILL REMAIN PRETTY COLD AND WEATHER UNSETTLED INTO WED NITE...WITH ANOTHER WEAK FROPA TUE NITE/WED. WARM FRONT MOVES N INTO CWA WED NITE. && .LONG TERM... A BIT OF A WARM-UP ON THU AHEAD OF NEXT FRONT ON FRI. WEEKEND LOOKS VERY MUCH UP IN AIR AS EURO AND GFS WIDELY DIVERGENT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 31 40 39 48 / 90 80 70 50 CLARKSVILLE 27 34 33 42 / 90 80 70 40 CROSSVILLE 36 47 46 55 / 90 70 70 60 COLUMBIA 33 42 41 52 / 90 80 70 50 LAWRENCEBURG 33 44 43 53 / 90 80 70 50 WAVERLY 29 35 34 44 / 90 80 70 40 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ICE STORM WARNING UNTIL 9 AM CST TUESDAY FOR TNZ005>007-022>026. FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM CST TUESDAY FOR TNZ008-009-027>029-056>062-093>095. && 17/MAG
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1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Some icy roads were reported in the Manchester area and numerous school closing occurred.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, December 2008
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 147882.