East Tennessee and much of … The heavy, wet flakes quickly accumulated, with Knoxville officially recording 15 inches. The storm packed wind gusts of … Jere Ingram, commander of the 278th Armored Cavalry, called up members of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Support Squadrons to report for duty.McGhee Tyson Airport was shut down Saturday and part of Sunday.
Skip to main content. In the days that followed, high drifts lined the roadways as plows and shovels did their work, and many residents learned for the first time the fun of digging out driveways and sidewalks. Many surrounding areas got much more, including the Great Smoky Mountains, where up to five feet was measured in some places.
The Blizzard of '93 began harmlessly enough as a broad cold trough of low pressure in the upper atmosphere which covered much of the country east of the Rocky mountains. The storm was unique and notable for its intensity, massive size, and wide-reaching effects; at its height, the storm stretched from Canada to Honduras. In this case, the wisest people did stock up on milk, bread, and other essentials at the grocery store before the snow started!Emergency crews worked to help people in need, and even the military was called in to use helicopters to drop food and supplies to secluded homes.In addition to record snowfall in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, the storm also brought extremely high winds and unseasonably cold air across the south, even into Florida. See what Local 8 News predicts The storm eventually dissipated in the … All Rights Reserved. Now 25 years later, the snow storm isn't forecast to be as brutal Monday, which is the anniversary of the blizzard. © 2020 WBIR-TV. If you didn't, well you've probably heard about it!On March 12, 1993, snow started falling.
The cyclone moved through the Gulf of Mexico and then through the eastern United States before moving on to Canada. Yes, I was short, but that was a lot of snow!WBIR engineer Pat Thompson poses by the big green generator, which kept WBIR on the air throughout the blizzard At 7:00 … Nearly 60,000 lightning strikes were recorded as the storm swept over the country, for a total of seventy-two hours, and many may remember their local news organizations touting the term "thundersnow". © 2020 WBIR-TV. That's more snow than many of them had ever seen, and probably will ever see again in their backyard!On the 25th anniversary of the start of the blizzard, we took a special look back at those memorable days, through archive video and interviews with those who lived it.Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings.Whether you lived it or have just heard the stories, we're turning back the clock to remember the Blizzard of 1993, when East Tennessee was nearly paralyzed by more than a foot of snow!
A beautiful shot of the Smokies from Sharps Ridge in Knoxville.A beautiful shot of the Smokies from Sharps Ridge in Knoxville. School was closed Monday for all, and for many, a lot longer.Mayor Victor Ashe called it "the worst storm I've seen in 48 years. All Rights Reserved. Yes, I was short, but that was a lot of snow!WBIR engineer Pat Thompson poses by the big green generator, which kept WBIR on the air throughout the blizzardA beautiful shot of the Smokies from Sharps Ridge in Knoxville.Our backyard in Maryville- snow almost up to my kneesBefore and after-- Edgewood Park in north KnoxvilleJaclyn, 14-months, standing in front of snowman Dad built for herOur son Todd could not remember seeing much snow since we hadn't had much in Knoxville for a whileWaist deep snow! Turns out suburbs — not cities — are worse for COVID-19 transmissionGov. When the Blizzard of '93 buried East Tennessee, people were snowed in and found passionate ways to stay warm. The 1993 Storm of the Century (also known as the 93 Superstorm, The No Name Storm, or the Great Blizzard of '93/1993) was a large cyclonic storm that formed over the Gulf of Mexico on March 12, 1993. If you lived in East Tennessee in 1993, you have your own stories to tell. It's still talked about as if it were a shipwreck or war ... and maybe in some ways it was.Fifteen inches of snow fell in 24 hours on Friday, March 12, with a 40 mph wind to boot.Truckloads of Saturday's mail did not get delivered on March 13, and on Sunday this newspaper did not publish — two events no one thought would ever happen.The one-word News Sentinel headline in Monday's paper said it all: "SNOWBOUND! LeConte was buried under 60 inches of snow.Life pretty much ground to a halt in East Tennessee, with road crews unable to keep even the main thoroughfares clear for long as the snow fell. Skip to main content. Electric lines snapped, cars crashed, people died. As we approach 25 years since the record-breaking Blizzard of '93, history measures the "storm of the century" in many ways. The blizzard from this storm system caused a total of $6.6 billion of damage. And falling.
The Blizzard of '93.