Light snow during the morning hours of the 28th accumulated to one to two inches in Marshall County. Lighter amounts were reported in Cullman and DeKalb Counties.
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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 HUN wrote it up.
Light snow during the morning hours of the 28th accumulated to one to two inches in Marshall County. Lighter amounts were reported in Cullman and DeKalb Counties. The snow was quite powdery and dry due to a very cold air mass in place. Water equivalents were only on the order of a few hundredths of an inch.
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 Huntsville, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 28, 11:42 AM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1142 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014
.UPDATE...
TO HOIST A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR
CULLLMAN...MARSHALL..JACKSON...AND DEKALB COUNTIES. SNOW
ACCUMULATIONS INCREASED TO 1-1.5 INCHES.
&&
.DISCUSSION...
MESOSCALE MID LEVEL BANDING CONTINUES TO PRODUCE A SNOW BAND FROM
CULLMAN THROUGH THE FORT PAYNE AREA...AND ANOTHER BAND ACROSS
SOUTHERN TN. SNOW RATIOS ARE LIKELY IN THE 15-20:1 RANGE, SO IT IS
TAKING VERY LITTLE MOISTURE TO PRODUCE MINOR ACCUMS. LATEST EMA
REPORTS OF SNOW ACCUMS NEAR 1 INCH IN MARSHALL...DEKALB AND CULLLMAN
COUNTIES. MANY ROADS ARE EITHER SLICK OR IMPASSIBLE DUE TO BLACK ICE
FORMING IN THESE AREAS. SNOW WILL PERSIST IN SOUTHEASTERN
CULLMAN...MARSHALL AND MOST OF DEKALB COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT 2-3
HOURS...SO ADDITONAL ONE HALF INCH AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. A SIMILAR BAND
OVER SRN TN HAS DROPPED ABOUT A HALF INCH IN SEWANEE ON THE
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AND ONE QUARTER INCH VIA OUR COOP OBSERVER IN
WINCHESTER. THE MAIN ISSUE WITH THIS SNOW IS THE VERY COLD AND DRY
AIR ALLOWING FOR QUICK REFREEZING OF THE LITTLE MOISTURE IN THE SNOW
THERE IS.
&&
AK
.AVIATION...
/ISSUED 1054 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014/
FOR 18Z TAFS... EARLIER BAND OF -SN HAS SHIFTED TO THE SE OF KMSL AND
KHSV VCNTYS WITH PERIODIC FLURRIES FOLLOWING BEHIND. FLURRIES WILL
OCCUR OFF AND ON THRU MID AFTERNOON WITH FEW-SCT CLOUDS AT
020-030AGL AND VFR CIGS AT 080-010AGL. THE OVERALL TREND SHOULD BE
FOR FURTHER LOW LEVEL DRYING TO END THE SNOWFALL POTENTIAL BY LATE
AFTEROON. MID AND HIGH LEVEL CIGS OF 100-150AGL WILL PERSIST INTO
THE EARLY EVENING HOURS BEFORE A CLEARING TREND TONIGHT.
AK
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION...
/ISSUED 927 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014/
MID LEVEL FRONTOGENETIC BANDED SNOWFALL CONTINUES TO PROGRESS SEWD
AND NOW BISECTING THE FORECAST AREA FROM NEAR SEWANEE THRU HARTSELLE
TO SOUTHWEST OF CULLMAN. A NARROW "HEAVIER" BAND HAS LOWERED VSBYS TO
3/4-2 MILES AND PRODUCED A DUSTING OF SNOWFALL. DUE TO THE COLD/DRY
THERMAL PROFILE, THE SNOW IS A VERY POWDERY AND DRY CONSISTENCY, AND
THUS FAR HAS NOT CAUSED TOO MANY ROAD ISSUES. WE HAVE KEPT THE SNOW
ACCUMULATIONS AT < 1 INCH IN OUR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES AS THIS SNOW
CONTINUES THRU EARLY AFTN. ANOTHER NARROW BAND OF -SN (MOSTLY ALOFT)
WAS DEVELOPING FROM NRN MS INTO SRN TN. THIS MAY BRING ANOTHER PERIOD
OF -SN/FLURRIES TO OUR SRN TN COUNTIES AND PERHAPS FAR NRN AL. DUE TO
THE CLOUDS, SNOWFALL AND COLD ADVECTION, TEMPS WILL STRUGGLE TO MOVE
UPWARD TODAY, SO HAVE TRIMMED THEM BACK AS WELL.
AK
&&
.HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR ALZ008>010-
016.
FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON FOR ALZ001>010-016.
WIND CHILL ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY FOR ALZ001>010-016.
TN...WIND CHILL ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY FOR TNZ076-096-097.
&&
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AT WEATHER.GOV/HUNTSVILLE.HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1144 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-290000- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1144 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... PERIODS OF LIGHT SNOW OR SNOW FLURRIES WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF NORTH ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND NEAR A CULLMAN TO FORT PAYNE LINE. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR CULLMAN...JACKSON...MARSHALL AND DEKALB COUNTIES UNTIL 6 PM. IN SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...AN INCH OR LESS IS POSSIBLE WITH A SEPARATE BAND OF SNOW. VISIBILITY WILL BE REDUCED TO LESS THAN TWO MILES AT TIMES. DUE TO THE VERY COLD AIRMASS...ANY MELTING OF SNOW WILL QUICKLY REFREEZE ON ROAD SURFACES. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE REGION THROUGH TONIGHT. GUSTY NORTH WINDS COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE TEENS AND LOWER 20S WILL DROP WIND CHILLS TO BETWEEN FIVE ABOVE AND FIVE BELOW ZERO...ESPECIALLY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SNOWFALL OR ROAD CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1007 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1006 AM SNOW 2 SSW FAIRVIEW 34.22N 86.71W
01/28/2014 E0.5 INCH CULLMAN AL TRAINED SPOTTER
AROUND ONE HALF OF AN INCH OF SNOWFALL REPORTED
&&
KWEBERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1019 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1015 AM SNOW 5 NNW IDER 34.76N 85.71W
01/28/2014 E0.5 INCH JACKSON AL TRAINED SPOTTER
HALF AN INCH OF SNOW WAS REPORTED.
&&
KWEBERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1041 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1039 AM SNOW 1 NNE COLLINSVILLE 34.28N 85.86W
01/28/2014 E0.2 INCH DEKALB AL TRAINED SPOTTER
ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH OF SNOWFALL REPORTED.
&&
KWEBERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1134 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1131 AM SNOW 2 NE WINCHESTER 35.21N 86.08W
01/28/2014 E0.2 INCH FRANKLIN TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH OF SNOWFALL REPORTED AT THE
DECHERD POLICE DEPARTMENT.
&&
KWEBERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1139 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1131 AM SNOW NE SEWANEE 35.20N 85.92W
01/28/2014 E0.5 INCH FRANKLIN TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
ONE HALF OF AN INCH OF SNOWFALL REPORTED BY SEWANEE
POLICE.
&&
KWEBERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1149 AM CST TUE JAN 28 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1027 AM SNOW SKIRUM 34.32N 85.97W
01/28/2014 E1.0 INCH DEKALB AL TRAINED SPOTTER
ONE INCH OF SNOWFALL REPORTED.
&&
KWEBERThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall accumulations of 1-2 inches were reported by NWS COOP and CoCoRaHS observers.
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