John1122

I've got a photo of my dog in the snow from the event. It was the first year I had her. She died in November at 17. She absolutely loved rolling and playing in snow.

If I were guessing those areas were in exactly the right path and the snow was dynamically driven. The highs in virtually every location that day was in the 40s, but the areas that got under the heavy snow were cooled just enough from the upper levels most likely. On a smaller scale than that a similar event happened in Campbell Co in December 2009. Very heavy rain for about five minutes that switched to silver dollar or larger flakes. We got 8 inches of snow in 4 hours. Broke power lines and my power was off for 3 days. Scott county to the west, Whitley to the north and Claiborne to the east went back and forth from rain to snow and ended up getting an inch of slush. Anderson to the south and points south ended with all rain. If you get under just the right part of a system it can really have freakish seeming results.

Snow quickly went away in the valley areas in Campbell but still around for another day above 1700 feet on the north/northwest facing areas.

GFS and Canadian are both feet in with the Northern stream. The Euro is less impressed. The Euro hasn't been good with the southern stream beyond 48 hours this year. Not had any notable Northern stream stuff to judge.

It's the same event. The band apparently traveled ENE. Oneida got no snow from it. Anderson, Campbell County and into Claiborne got 4-8 inches. Jellico got nothing on the Ky border but Lafollette got 8 inches. Middlesboro Kentucky got 0.00 precip but Tazewell about 15 miles South of there got 5 inches of snow. Lancing which is 5 minutes from Wartburg got 9 inches. Oak Ridge got 7.5 inches of snow while Rockwood recorded a trace, Monteagle got 2 inches. Knoxville got trace snow but Norris, 15 miles north got 3 inches. . Further east, Abington, Va got 6 inches as did Mountain City. Rogersville got 4 inches, Morristown to Tri got 2 or 3 inches and Roan Mtn got 1.8 inches. While Jefferson City got a trace and Greenville 1/2 inch Newport and Sevierville 0. I remembered the event and that it hit my area heavily and not Knox. I also remembered Jellico and Whitley County getting nothing. But I didn't remember it being so randomly scattered around the state.

There was another mega bust in that timeframe where there were widespread winter storm warnings and the system was suppressed and no one got anything. There was a 3rd event on a weekday where the Plateau got pummelled with heavy snow, 6+ inches and the valley was all rain. Driving home from work that day it was pouring rain in Knoxville, it was snowing and raining mixed at the Clinch river bridge, all snow with none on the ground at Lake City, 5+ inches of snow just south of Caryville with heavy snow falling.

The event from February 2004 there was on a Sunday. The Plateau got generally 6-10 inches of snow. NE Tennessee got 3 or so. It was a cold rain event in Oak Ridge and Knoxville but as far south as Norris had 3 or 4 inches. I worked in west Knoxville at the time. When I went to work that Monday people didn't believe me when I said it had snowed at my house until I showed them about 8 inches in the bed of my truck.

Looks like 10-20 degrees BN for temps February 25th-29th. Opens a window for some possible northern stream clipper or flow snow. Been a rare thing this year.

Crossville was 31 during the event. It made all the difference in the world.

Looking back at modeling from 12z Wednesday. NAM had me with .32 precip, Euro .22, GFS .11, Canadian .10. NAM had me with 2.5 inches of snow ratio'd map with a 2 inch snow depth. Euro had me with 2 inches but doesn't have a depth map I can access. GFS/Canadian had me with a dusting. So it looks like the Euro/NAM were best for mby from 24 hours before the event started.

I'd like to see an event with temps around 26-29 instead of 32/33. BL temps always rule the roost. Even being at 32 vs 34 is huge. Maybe not in the cards for the rest of the season though. Today did make me appreciate just how hard it snowed in April 1987 and in a couple of other April events I had. My accumulation today came in two waves when very heavy snow fell at over an inch per hour rates. Less than that and it just snowed on top of the snow but it was melting from underneath at an equal or greater rate of the snow falling. I had a 3 inch event in April 1997 or 1998 when I got all 3 inches in 1.5 hours of silver dollars. April 1987 was basically 12 hours of silver dollars. We had that today but in shorter bursts. I had .30 QPF today. Looks like some areas around Knoxville towards Morristown had much more. Close to an inch in some places. I wish I could have given you guys my temps.

Yes, it came down pretty good for a few minutes. Looks like it's going to be the last shot and it looks like it's getting ragged as it leaves the Plateau area.

I have had a few heavy showers this evening. always nice to see.

Another shot of nice quarter sized flakes but its losing steam fast at this point.

Snow has backed off here.

Been rolling down here for the last hour. Crossing 2 inches. Seems like it's been forever to have big heavy flakes falling all day.

Thse 35dbz rates would be close to 1.75 inch per hour rates I believe.

Oak Ridge is reporting heavy snow with 1/4th mile vis, hope they are getting some accumulation out of it for our posters from that area. 1.75 inches here now, it's snowing around 3/4ths inch per hour rates on average but it's more 1.5 inch per hour then when it backs off it's compacting and melting from below about as fast as it can fall. I wish we'd managed a day in the 20s before this moved in instead of a day in the 50s.

The rates and flake size are very impressive when any enhancement rolls through. It looks like it's leaving West Tennessee, I assume in a few hours the transfer off the coast will take place and this will shut off pretty fast.

Snowing very heavily again. Vis between 1/4th and 1/2 mile. Around 1.5 inches so far.

Crossville reported heavy snow with 1/4th mile vis with the band that just moved through there, explains your situation Shocker! Enhanced area is about to move over me it looks like. Odd ob to me is rain and 34 in Middlesboro, Kentucky. Surprised they got any rain from this. I never saw anything but pure snow from the first flake. Not even drizzle or a sleet pellet. Just a few flurries and then goosefeathers.

wrong thread.

Close to an inch here. Steady quarter + sized flakes currently.

I-75 at MM 143. Around 2200 feet. Good thing no advisories were issued here and the sps was even dropped.

Ripping half dollars, this is basically 25 minutes worth.