A light freezing rain and drizzle event occurred across portions of the Cumberland Plateau during the late evening hours on the 17th and the early morning hours of the 18th.
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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.
A light freezing rain and drizzle event occurred across portions of the Cumberland Plateau during the late evening hours on the 17th and the early morning hours of the 18th.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
A sudden coating of black ice on Interstate 40 caused several vehicles to wreck from mile marker 295 to the Cumberland County Line. No injuries were reported.
A light drizzle fell on fozen roads resulting in black ice across a wide portion of the county. On Interstate 40, 55 cars and trucks were involved in a chain-reaction crash on a five mile stretch of Interstate 40 between mile marker 329 and 334. In addition, there were over a dozen accidents with injuries scattered across all ends of the county. One women reportedly suffered serious injuries including breaks to both arms. In Crossville, the Cumberland County Chapter of the American Red Cross opened an emergency shelter at the Crab Orchard Church of God of Prophecy and 22 travelers spent the night there.
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, January 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: 149792, 149793.