Light snow showers fell on the Cumberland Plateau throughout the day on February 25. 5 inches were reported.
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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.
Light snow showers fell on the Cumberland Plateau throughout the day on February 25. Snow amounts up to 1.5 inches were reported.
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 24, 7:16 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 716 PM CST WED FEB 24 2016 .UPDATE... FOR 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION. && .DISCUSSION... CROSSVILLE NOW REPORTING LIGHT SNOW WITH 34 DEGREES AND A DEWPOINT OF 30. TEMP TIME HEIGHT PROFILES ACROSS THE PLATEAU SHOWS A STEADY TO SLIGHTLY DECREASING FREEZING LEVEL OVERNIGHT. SNOW LEVELS ARE CURRENTLY AROUND 1600 FEET MSL ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLATEAU. AT NASHVILLE...WHERE WE ARE FURTHER INTO THE COLDER AIR...SNOW LEVELS LOOK TO BE RUNNING AROUND 800 TO 1000 FEET MSL. CURRENTLY SNOWING IN WESTMORELAND WHERE THE ELEV IS 925 FT. WILL GO AHEAD AND UPDATE THE GRIDS AND INCLUDE MORE IN THE WAY OF JUST SNOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PLATEAU FOR TONIGHT. THE ADVISORY WONT START UNTIL MIDNIGHT. WE MAY NEED TO MOVE THAT UP...BUT FOR NOW...THE WARM GROUND AND ABOVE FREEZING TEMPS MAY DELAY ANY ACCUM UNTIL AFTER THE ADVISORY STARTS...AT MIDNIGHT. RAIN SNOW MIX ELSEWHERE WITH NO ACCUM EXPECTED. UPDATE OUT SHORTLY. && .AVIATION... 00Z TAF DISCUSSION. AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE NEWD ACROSS THE ERN OHIO RIVER VALLEY REGION...LIGHT RAIN/LIGHT SNOW MIX WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE MID STATE REGION THRU 25/24Z. MORE LIGHT SNOW THEN RAIN WILL OCCUR NEAR CSV...WITH SOME LIGHT ICING POSSIBLE THRU 25/18Z. HAVE THUS GONE WITH A PREDOMINATE MVFR CEILINGS AND FLUCTUATIONS FROM HIGH END MVFR VSBYS TO VFR VSBYS THRU PERIOD. CONTINUANCE OF A STRONG SFC PRESSURE GRADIENT ASSOCIATED WITH SFC LOW ACROSS ERN GREAT LAKES REGION WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT SFC GUSTS TO 25 KTS POSSIBLY THRU 25/12Z...WITH GENERALLY SFC W/NW SUSTAINED WINDS IN THE 10 TO 15KT RANGE. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON CST THURSDAY FOR CUMBERLAND-FENTRESS-OVERTON-PICKETT-PUTNAM-WHITE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION........31 LONG TERM..................21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 458 AM CST WED FEB 24 2016 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-251100- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-HOUSTON- HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE-SMITH- JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-WILLIAMSON- MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DE KALB-WHITE-CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD- COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE-GILES- 458 AM CST WED FEB 24 2016 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A MIX OF LIGHT RAIN AND LIGHT SNOW IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. HOWEVER...THE BEST CHANCE FOR ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...WHERE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE STARTING AROUND MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MORNING HOURS ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL NOON ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SNOW DEPTH REPORTS BY SPOTTERS WILL BE VERY HELPFUL TONIGHT. 27
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snow amounts up to 1.5 inches were measured across Fentress County. The Fentress County emergency manager measured 1.5 inches of snow 3.1 miles southeast of Jamestown, and CoCoRaHS station Clarkrange 6.0 NE measured 1.3 inches of snow.
Snow amounts up to 2 inches were measured across Cumberland County. CoCoRaHS station Crossville 4.7 S measured 1.7 inches of snow, CoCoRaHS station Crossville 6.9 S measured 1.2 inches of snow, and CoCoRaHS station Fairfield Glade 0.1 NNW measured 1.0 inch of snow.
Snow amounts up to 1 inch were measured across eastern Putnam County. CoCoRaHS station Monterey 3.9 W measured 0.8 inches of snow.
Snow amounts up to 1 inch were measured across eastern Warren County. CoCoRaHS station McMinnville 8.5 ESE measured 0.7 inches of snow.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, February 2016
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 620940, 620941, 620942, 620943.