An upper level low passage provided for the development of a deformation zone that resulted in accumulations of snow and ice mainly across a large portion of southern middle Tennessee.
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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.
An upper level low passage provided for the development of a deformation zone that resulted in accumulations of snow and ice mainly across a large portion of southern middle Tennessee.
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 28, 3:12 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 534 AM CST SAT FEB 28 2009 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-011145- 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- 534 AM CST SAT FEB 28 2009 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM CST SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE FOLLOWING WEATHER HAZARD(S) ARE IN EFFECT... RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW TONIGHT...WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES ACCUMULATION LIKELY. THE HIGHER AMOUNTS WILL BE OVER WESTERN PORTIONS. MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV OR BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE. 17/MAG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
8 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Sleet and snow mixture reported at 107 South Humingbird Lane near US Highway 70. Minor accumulation was reported at this time.
One inch of snow was reported in the last two hours in downtown Lewisburg.
Snow was measured on a snowboard at 2.25 inches in two hours in Lewisburg.
Report was received of turn over to all snow in Lawrenceburg. Icy conditions, the result of a mixture of sleet that had previously fallen and the current falling of snow, were developing across the entire county. One wreck was reported with injuries in Summertown. Extent of the injuries was unkown.
Moderate snow over a twenty minute period resulted in one inch of total snowfall accumulations being reported. Roads were reported as becoming slushy during this time period also.
Five miles east of Hohenwald, 1.5 inches of snow accumulation had occurred over the past 2 hour period with moderate snow continuing.
Turn over to all snow reported with a dusting of accumulation on the grass across the entire county. Snowfall was making driving visibilities poor countywide also.
Three tenths of an inch of snow had fallen in the past hour. Total snow depth was 1.3 inches. All roads in Dickson area were slushy or covered. Snow was coming down at a steady pace.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, February 2009
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: 157884, 158190, 158193, 158177, 158180, 158194, 158185, 158189.