Snowstorm Coming Tuesday into Wednesday in West TN!

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update

February 17, 2025

Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

The next big weather event is on the way to West Tennessee. Snow will move in Tuesday evening and become heavy Tuesday night before clearing out Wednesday morning. Temperatures will also drop very quickly Tuesday night. We might see a brief period of sleet or freezing rain but it looks like a “mostly” snow event for us in West Tennessee. We will have our official WBBJ Snowfall Forecast Totals map coming up here.

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The National Weather Service in Memphis has confirmed an EF2 in northern Gibson county from last night’s severe weather event. Here is the storm survey conducted by the NWS in Memphis from the Bradford tornado Saturday evening. The tornado reached wind speeds as high as 115 MPH, was on the ground for 10 mins and moved 4 miles across northern Gibson County!

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The Obion River and the Tennessee River are not done rising yet in Obion and Savannah. The flash flood warnings have expired but the flood warnings will continue for several days. Both rivers are expected to stay in the Moderate flood stage for Tuesday before cresting later in the day. Oh and SNOW is coming Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning

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THIS WEEK:

Temperatures will be a little cool tonight across West Tennessee and drop down to the mid to upper 20s. The skies will become cloudy overnight but the winds will be calm for the most part. Highs on Tuesday will reach up to around 40° before the winter storm system moves in during the late afternoon and evening hours. The winds will be breezy out of the northeast and clouds will stick around for most of the day.

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The snow will move in during the late afternoon hours across the Mississippi River before starting close to sunset in the Jackson area. The snow bands will move west to east and drop to the south as the evening goes on. Everyone will be seeing snow between 10pm and 2am in West Tennessee. The highest snow amounts are expected to be in our northern counties near Kentucky with the lowest amounts expected to be near the Mississippi border. The show should wrap up by the time the sun comes up on Wednesday.

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Temperatures are going to get cold quickly as the system moves in Tuesday night. Tuesday night lows will fall to around 20°. That is we are not expecting much in the way of ice and sleet, but there will be some that will mix in towards the beginning of the event. Wednesday highs will be chilly and only reach the upper 20s before falling all the way down to the upper single digits Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Clouds will stick around during the day but should break up overnight into Thursday morning. The winds will stay out of the north until the weekend.

Thursday we should see some sunshine but it is going to be a VERY cold day! Highs will only reach the low 20s and we will start our day in the single digits and end our day back in the single digits to start our Friday. Friday highs will warm up a bit into the low to mid 30s and that could lead to a little bit of snow melting. Snow will be melting through this weekend for most of us. We still will see plenty of sunshine on Friday but some clouds will try to move back in this weekend keeping Friday night’s low up a bit around 20°.

THE WEEKEND:

Warmer weather will move back in for the weekend and that will allow for the snow to melt across the area. Highs will reach the mid to upper 40s this weekend. Saturday night will drop to the upper 20s and Sunday night might even stay a few degrees above freezing. We could be back up closer to 60° on Monday of next week. We will see partly cloudy skies this weekend due to the slight increase in humidity and a return of the west and southwest winds. The winds will stay out of the southwest to kick off next week!