A cold frontal passage brought snowfall to northern portions of the Cumberland Plateau.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
A cold frontal passage brought snowfall to northern portions of the Cumberland Plateau.
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 Feb 2, 3:15 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 315 AM CST MON FEB 2 2009 .DISCUSSION... LATEST ANALYSIS SHOWING COLD FRONT ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU THIS MORNING. ALOFT...WEAK IMPULSE/SHORTWAVE PUSHING JUST BEHIND. ASSOCIATED BAND OF DEEP MOISTURE NOW ACROSS THE MID-STATE WITH LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS BECOMING WIDESPREAD. GOOD CAA IS OCCURRING BEHIND FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND BACK EDGE OF PCPN MIXING WITH SLEET/SNOW. COLD FRONT AND UPPER SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE RAPIDLY ACROSS THE MID- STATE THIS MORNING AND WELL EAST...BRINGING AN END TO THE PCPN BRIEFLY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS MORNING HOWEVER...INCOMING COLD AIR WILL LIKELY CAUSE A MIXTURE OF RAIN/SNOW FOR A SHORT TIME BEFORE ENDING. WINTRY MIX IS EXPECTED TO BE A LIGHT EVENT AND LITTLE IF ANY ACCUMULATION IS LIKELY. TEMPS MAY EVEN REBOUND SOME THIS AFTERNOON AS PARTIAL SUN RETURNS IN DRY SLOT. AFTER A DRY EVENING...ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WILL COME DOWN LATE TONIGHT FOLLOWED BY YET ANOTHER ON TUESDAY. COLD AIR WILL BE WELL SETTLED BY THEN THUS ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS OR FLURRIES ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE IMPULSES AND POCKETS OF MODERATE MOISTURE MOVE ACROSS. THE NORTHERN PLATEAU MAY SEE MINOR ACCUMULATION BUT NOTHING MUCH IS EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. A FEW FLURRIES MAY LINGER ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLATEAU TUESDAY EVENING BUT OTHERWISE...THE CWA MOVES INTO A DRY PERIOD...WITH WARMER TEMPS... WHICH IS EXPECTED TO LAST INTO THE WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 46 27 36 18 / 30 10 20 10 CLARKSVILLE 46 24 33 17 / 10 20 20 10 CROSSVILLE 41 22 32 15 / 60 20 30 10 COLUMBIA 46 27 37 19 / 30 10 20 10 LAWRENCEBURG 44 26 38 18 / 30 10 20 10 WAVERLY 43 25 35 18 / 20 10 20 10 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 510 AM CST MON FEB 2 2009 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-031130- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-BENTON- HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE- SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS- WILLIAMSON-MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DEKALB-WHITE- CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE- GILES- 510 AM CST MON FEB 2 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING...WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS LATE TONIGHT. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A DISTURBANCE WILL BRING YET ANOTHER ROUND OF ISOLATED-SCATTERED LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS TO THE AREA ON TUESDAY. MINOR ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU BUT LITTLE IF ANY ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Southern portions of Fentress County were covered by up to three inches of snow in isolated locations, especially across White Oak Road. Middle and northern portions of the county had less than three inches of snowfall.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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