Holston_River_Rambler

Sounds good. We can always start with that and see what happens. Then I can try to dig into newspapers in the area I mentioned yesterday. Found a good online source for Knox News going back to the 1800s, but still digging for others places. To be fair I didn't have as much time as I thought I would today, but its a process and every bit helps.

So that analogue website has a limited number of data entry points, so I have to pick a few from John's list. I thought maybe try Miller A and B events first, since they would have the potential to impact more of us than NW flows, but thought I'd see what y'all thought.

I went ahead and looked through the KU book and have a list if storms that look to have impacted the TN Valley. I will add to it as I get more dates from y’all or other research. The KU maps typically show the whole Eastern CONUS, so I was able to see which of their storms impacted us. Some caveats though: 1. This is not intended to be a full list of everything just yet. Their book is aimed at Northeast urban corridor storms so southern sliders aren’t in it. I have also added a few extra already. I mainly want to get some of these dates out there so people with more knowledge of local climates can add to it or tell me “Hey, that one didn’t do much here”. I will go back through this thread later today and add the storms all of you have put into it already. 2. The KU larger maps are at low resolution so our microclimates in the high and low elevations may have had dramatic impacts not reflected in the book 3. I know we had talked about just doing March, but I just put them all in here for future reference. I see people talking about “changing wavelengths” in Spring and am not sure exactly what that means, but I suspect it means many of these storms may not be helpful as analogues. 4. I tried to look for uncomplicated Miller As that affected parts of the area. Some Miller Bs were included if they looked like they may have produced snow for some of the area (example, January 1965). I also live in the Great Eastern Valley so I may have excluded some storms just because I naturally key in on that area. If you have one that affected you and you want me to add it, let me know. 5. I tried to go by the start date listed in the KU book, but if we are going to plug these into the analogue generator I’m not sure what dates are best since we’re looking for 500mb patterns, not sensible weather. November events: 22 November 1950 December events: 24 December 1966 25 December 1969 23 December 1963 31 December 1970 16 December 1973 January Events: 5 January 1988 22 January 1966 21 January 1987 27 January 1922 23 January 1935 23 January 1940 11 January 1964 29 January 1966 18 January 1978 21 January 1987 25 January 1987? Mixing issues 5 January 1988 22 January 1966 21 January 1987 27 January 1922 23 January 1935 23 January 1940 11 January 1964 29 January 1966 18 January 1978 21 January 1987 25 January 1987? Mixing issues 16 Jan 1965 14 January 1982 7 January 1988 13 January 1978 February events 13 February 1960 11 February 1899 15 February 1900 7 February 1907 20 February 1921 21 February 1929 7 February 1936 20 February 1947 (western areas) 15 February 1958 13 February 1960 19 February 1979 2 February 1996 15 February 1996 March events March 3 1980 March 7 1996 March 13 1993 6 March 1932 18 March 1958 (close miss to east) 2 March 1960 2 March 1994 (Interesting track, but looked to be cone of those rare rain to snow storms that worked) 14 March 1999 (looked dynamic but rainy) April events April 1987

In regards the the winter of 95-96, I think most people remember January and after, but in Kingsport I remember a clipper type of system around Dec. 9, 1995? (not sure I could tell you the difference between types of systems then, but the track seems to have been out of the N. plains and across TN). Greatest, most epic clipper in history for me! I think I got 6-9" at my house in Kingsport and for my lifetime, at least within my memory, that was the best December snow.

Kind of an other side of the same coin question here, but there is an epic fail storm that I've always wanted to ask y'all about. I can't remember the actual date, so I was wondering if any of you did. It must have been between 94 and 99 since I had begun to watch the Weather Channel after 93 and got out of that after 2000. (I used to leave it on, volume down, while I slept and would love to wake up at 2-3 am sometimes and hear some of the crazier shenanigans late night on air.) Anyway I would watch the 5 day business planner and sometimes you'd see snow at day 5 and I'd then track it (just by watching the snow icon each day) until it was on the local on the 8s or whatever that was called when there was just music and no voice. I had no knowledge of models or anything like that then, I just thought they updated the forecast around or after 2 AM and 2 PM every day. Well if those snows made it to the first night on the local on the 8s (12 hours off) I thought I could pretty much bet on what they were forecasting. There was one night I went to sleep and the forecast was something like "Snow. Heavy at times. Accumulations of 8-12 inches possible". I figured if I didn't 8-12, well 6 would probably be ok. Woke up to nothing. I turned on the Weather Channel and remember their meteorologist Bruce Edwards saying something like "Well we were expecting this moisture to come north and it just didn't happen". {**Please note I'm not blaming him here or grumping, just rehearsing my experiences. This happened nearly 20 years ago and that would be crazy**}. Knowing what I do now, it sounds to me like Gulf convection cut off the moisture or something, but it always stuck with me how that one busted, but I can't remember what or when that happened. I was living in Kingsport at the time.

One of my most distinct memories from that time and my entire youth (I was 10) was watching Johnny Wood on WCYB stand in front of a radar map, gesturing too a blob of precip in Texas and saying something like: "I know a lot of these seems to have missed us this year, but it doesn't look like this one is going to". Good times and thundersnow!

While checking out twitter today, I came across this link to a Compendium of SSW data sets: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/groups/csd8/sswcompendium/