An area of low pressure developed in northeast Texas on January 21st and moved into central Alabama by January 22nd, producing accumulating snow across northern Alabama.
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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.
An area of low pressure developed in northeast Texas on January 21st and moved into central Alabama by January 22nd, producing accumulating snow across northern Alabama.
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 22, 10:39 AM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 536 AM CST FRI JAN 22 2016 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-231115- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 536 AM CST FRI JAN 22 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A STRONG WINTER STORM WILL IMPACT THE CENTRAL TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL EXPECTED FOR ALL AREAS. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE REFER TO THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY WHICH GOES INTO EFFECT AT 9 AM CST FOR THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE REGION...AND 3 PM CST ELSEWHERE. THE COMBINATION OF SNOW AND FROZEN WATER WILL LEAD TO HAZARDOUS TRAVELING CONDITIONS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL CREATE WIND CHILLS IN THE 15 TO 20 DEGREE RANGE OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... LINGERING LIGHT SNOW WILL END ACROSS NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY LATE SATURDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF WINTER WEATHER OPERATIONS IS POSSIBLE FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. 70/DD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow, 1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
It was estimated that 3.5 inches of snowfall occurred near Lynchburg in Moore county, Tennessee.
Snowfall amounts were estimated to have ranged from an inch to 1.8 inches across Lincoln county, Tennessee.
Snowfall amounts across Franklin county, Tennessee ranged from 2.2 inches near Huntland, Tennessee, to 3.2 inches near Winchster, Tennessee.
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, January 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 615050, 615051, 615052.