Rain spread across Middle Tennessee on January 9, with the rain changing to light snow across northwest Middle Tennessee and on the Cumberland Plateau from the late evening hours on January 9 into the early morning hours on January 10. A few reports of 1/2 to just over 1 inch of snow were received.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
Rain spread across Middle Tennessee on January 9, with the rain changing to light snow across northwest Middle Tennessee and on the Cumberland Plateau from the late evening hours on January 9 into the early morning hours on January 10. A few reports of 1/2 to just over 1 inch of snow were received.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Several Facebook reports indicated 0.25 to 0.5 of snow accumulated in Clarksville.
A COOP observer 1 mile west of Dover measured 0.5 of snow.
CoCoRaHS station McMinnville 8.5 ESE measured 1.2 of snow in the early morning hours on January 10.
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: 616263, 616268, 616264.