2010 Metro Mitigation Plan

WINTER STORMS-1
No.
Location
Historical
Event
Time
Type
Magnitude
(inches)
Death
(#)
Injury
(#)
Property
Damage
(in $1000)
Crop
Damage
(in $1000)
Comment
Source of
Information
1 Nashville Dec-Jan 1779-80 severe winter
2 Nashville 1787-88 severe winter
3 Statewide Feb 1823 severe winter
4 Middle Tennessee Dec-Jan 1831-32 severe winter
Chronology of Disasters in TN (Including Natural and Man caused
Disasters, Epidemics and Civil Disturbances) Allen P. Coggins, 1996
5 Statewide Mid April 1849
severe
cold/snow
6 Middle Tennessee 22-Jan-1873 blizzard 0.0 0 0 0 0
7 Nashville 08-Jan-1886 snow 3.7 0 0 0 0
8 Nashville 2-Feb-1886 snow 6.5 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 6½" of snow.
A winter storm ushers in one of the worst cold outbreakes in mid state history. A strong cold front 3.7" of snow to Nashville, and
drops the temperature from a high of 35 degrees to -8 the following morning. For the next 3 days, the temperature does not rise
above 8 degrees, and the low temperature drops to 0 or below for five consecutive mornings, falling to -9 degrees on the morning
of January 11.
9 Nashville 3-Feb-1886 snow 9.8 0 0 0 0 Nashville records greatest one-day snowfall for February, measuring 9.8".
10 Nashville 21-Jan-1888 snow 6.1 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 6.1" of snow.
11 Nashville 17-Mar-1892 snow 17.0 0 0 0 0
Nashville records its greatest one-day snowfall ever, measuring 17". The snow starts after midnight, and continues until noon. No
street cars are running. Morning trains are delayed. And the "arteries of trade" are clogged. Suburban workers have to walk to
town. Mailmen don't leave the post office on their rounds until 10:00 a.m. A freight train from Chattanooga slides off the track at the
Winton community, near Murfreesboro, and a passenger train from Memphis due at 7:00 a.m. doesn't arrives until 2:00 p.m.
Riddleton, a few miles northwest of Carthage, receives 18.7" in what is believed to be the greatest single-day snowfall in Middle
Tennessee's history.
National Weather Service Forecast Office; Nashville, TN;
Calendar of Significant Weather Events in Middle TN
12 Nashville 11-Feb-1895 snow 6.0 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 6" of snow.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/climate/calendar.htm
13 Nashville 14-Feb-02 snow 8.0 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 8.0" of snow.
14 Nashville 29-Jan-05 snow 8.5 0 0 0 0 Nashville records greatest one-day snowfall for January, measuring 8.5"
15 Nashville 8-Feb-10 snow 8.8 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 8.8" of snow.
16 Nashville 25-Apr-10 snow/ice 1.5 0 0 0 0
Temperature at Nashville drops to 32 -- the latest freeze ever. Snowfall measuring 1½" also represents the greatest one-day
snowfall for April, and is the latest date for measurable snowfall.
17 Nashville 18-Dec-16 snow 6.0 0 0 0 0 Nashville records greatest one-day snowfall for December, measuring 6".
18 Nashville 4-Mar-17 snow 7.5 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 7½" of snow.
19 Nashville 11-Jan-18 snow 6.5 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 6½" of snow.
20 statewide Winter 1917-18 winter storm
Chronology of Disasters in TN (Including Natural and Man caused
Disasters, Epidemics and Civil Disturbances) Allen P. Coggins, 1990
21 Nashville 30-Oct-25 snow 1.0 0 0 0 0 Nashville records earliest measurable snowfall, with 1".
22 Nashville 20-Feb-29 snow 7.0 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 7" of snow.
23 Nashville 21-Feb-29 snow 8.0 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 8" of snow, for a two-day total of 15". The entire event occurs during a 13-hour period.
24 Nashville 22-Nov-29 snow 5.0 0 0 0 0 Five inches of snow fall at Nashville, the most ever measured on this date.
25 Nashville 19-Jan-36 snow 6.2 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 6.2" of snow.
26 Nashville 16-Jan-48 snow 7.0 0 0 0 0 Nashville receives 7" of snow.
27 Nashville 24-Nov-50 snow 7.2 0 0 0 0 Nashville records greatest one-day snowfall for November, measuring 7.2".
28 Nashville 29-Jan-51 snow/ice 1.6 0 0 0 0
The worst ice storm in Nashville's history begins, causing a complete stalemate of transportation in Nashville for two days. Frozen
precipitation starts during the evening, with 1.6" of snow and ice accumulating by midnight.
National Weather Service Forecast Office; Nashville, TN;
Calendar of Significant Weather Events in Middle TN
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/climate/calendar.htm
29 Nashville 31-Jan-51 snow 5.0 0 0 0 0
30 Nashville 1-Feb-51 snow 5.2 0 0 0 0
Five inches of snow and ice fall, much of it during the evening, producing a water equivalent of 3.83". This is the greatest one-day
precipitation event for January in Nashville's history.
Precipitation continues at Nashville through the morning, most of it as snow, and finally ends around noon. An additional 5.2" are
measured, leaving the city buried under 8" of ice and snow.
31 Nashville 2-Apr-51 snow 1.0 0 0 0 0
32 Davidson County 7-Jun-55 11:30 AM hail 1.0 0 0 0 0 None Reported
33 Davidson County 14-Aug-56 4:10 PM hail 0.8 0 0 0 0 None Reported
34 Davidson County 27-Aug-56 7:30 PM hail 0.8 0 0 0 0 None Reported
A rare late-season winter weather event produces an inch of snow at Nashville. The high of 43 is the lowest high temperature ever
recorded on this date.
National Climatic Data Center
NCDC / Climate Resources / Climate Data / Events / Storm Events
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~storms