Northwest flow induced snow showers leaving behind light snowfall across portions of northeastern Tennessee and the mountains of East Tennessee.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 MRX wrote it up.
Northwest flow induced snow showers leaving behind light snowfall across portions of northeastern Tennessee and the mountains of East Tennessee.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow, 1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy northwest flow snowfall resulted in a event depth of 6.5 of snow on top of Mount LeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Northwest flow snow of 3 fell at Newfound Gap, Tennessee. This closed US Highway 441, a major road that bisects Great Smoky Mountains National Park for forty hours. Several other locations across the East Tennessee Mountains, generally above 3,000 feet, received light snow ranging from 0.5 inches to 2.5 inches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, December 2023
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: 1153153, 1153154.