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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
846 AM CDT SUN APR 15 2007

...LIGHT SNOW BEING OBSERVED THIS MORNING AT A FEW MIDDLE TENNESSEE
LOCATIONS...

TEMPERATURES HAVE FALLEN INTO THE MIDDLE 30'S ACROSS A GOOD PART OF
MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS SUNDAY MORNING...WITH ISOLATED REPORTS OF
LIGHT SNOW...AND SLEET...MIXING WITH THE LIGHT RAIN...HAVE BEEN
RECEIVED FROM CLARKSVILLE...MOUNT JULIET AND THE CENTERVILLE AREAS.
NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS MORNING AS THE
SNOW WILL BE LIGHT...AND THE GROUND TEMPERATURES ARE STILL TOO WARM.
ROADS SHOULD ALSO REMAIN IN GOOD SHAPE.

TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLOW TO RISE THIS MORNING...BUT BY AFTERNOON
WE SHOULD SEE TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 40S ACROSS THE
MID STATE...WITH SOME UPPER 40S POSSIBLE OVER WESTERN AREAS.

THE LAST TIME SNOW FELL IN NASHVILLE...IN THE MONTH OF APRIL...WAS
ON APRIL 9TH 2003...WHEN A TRACE FELL. WE ALSO HAD A TRACE ON
APRIL 17TH 2001.

THE LAST TIME...MEASURABLE SNOW FELL...IN THE MONTH OF APRIL IN
NASHVILLE WAS ON APRIL 10TH 1973...WHEN 0.1 INCHES WAS MEASURED.

WE HAD 1.1 INCHES TO FALL IN NASHVILLE ON APRIL 6TH 1971. THIS IS
MOST SNOWFALL EVER IN THE MONTH OF APRIL...SINCE APRIL 25TH 1910
WHEN 1.5 INCHES FELL...WHICH IS THE MOST SNOW EVER TO FALL SO LATE
IN THE SEASON.

THE LATEST SNOWFALL ON RECORD IN NASHVILLE IS MAY 19TH 1894 WHEN
A TRACE FELL.

SNOWFALL RECORDS DATE BACK TO THE WINTER OF 1884 AND 1885...WHEN
THE ARMY SIGNAL CORPS BEGAN KEEPING SNOWFALL RECORDS IN NASHVILLE.


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BOBBY BOYD



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