A strong cold front brought post frontal snow to southwest Virginia, followed by several hours of highly banded northwest flow snow showers, leading to significant accumulations for mainly elevated locations.
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The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
A strong cold front brought post frontal snow to southwest Virginia, followed by several hours of highly banded northwest flow snow showers, leading to significant accumulations for mainly elevated locations.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 winter weather, 1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Light snow fell in Lee County, two reports one in the morning, one in the evening had the same amounts. A spotter in Jonesville recorded 1.5 inches of snow by 11:30 AM EST, and then a report from Pennington Gap was received in the evening of 1.5 inches of snow.
A trained spotter in Coeburn reported heavy snowfall totaling 7.2 inches of snow shortly before midnight. Snow bands became increasingly lighter and spotty thereafter. Additionally, the COOP observer at North Fork Lake recorded 2.5 inches of snow, and the COOP observer in Big Stone Gap recorded an inch of snowfall.
Light snow fell in Scott County, primarily in the morning hours based off radar. A CoCoRaHS observer in Gate City reported 1.3 inches of snow.
Snow up to 2 inches was measured in Bristol at times during the day and night as snow shower bands passed through the city after the initial snowfall in the morning.
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