Published on: March 1, 2009 at 3:20 AM

* 19 inches in the ground is the largest amountI could find at Maury City, in Crockett County, Tennessee
* 12 inches Atoka, Tenn., Tipton County
* 10 inches Arlington, Tenn., Shelby County
* 13 inches near Jackson, Tenn., (some communications out)
* 11 inches Blytheville, Ark.
* Snow has been accumulating at 2 inches per hour in Shelby County.
* Numerous accidents throughout West Tennessee

3 AM REPORTS
34 heavy snow Livingston and Demopolis, West Alabama
33 light snow Muscle Shoals
35 cloudy Birmingham Airport
30 steady snow, Oxford, Miss., visibility only 1/2 mile
39 Gulfport, Miss., north wind gusting to 38

* So far the main snow in Alabama has spread down into West Central Alabama. It was increasing in areas south of Birmingham.

* Looking at radar switched over to a winter mosaic mode, the main snow at 3:15 this morning was from Middle Tennessee, down across Northand Central Missippi and curving into West Central Alabama.

* The 3 am surface map shows a nice low pressure area developing over South Georgia. It will cause a lot of headaches as it swings up the east coast.