Boyett: A rare spring snowstorm hit Henderson County in 1996
Frank Boyett
Henderson County residents looked out their windows on the first day of spring 1996 to see a scene that looked more like the winter solstice.
It wasn’t this area’s latest snowstorm of the year. Since the National Weather Service began keeping records in Evansville in 1948 that would be the one that hit April 6, 1971. And it certainly wasn’t the hardest hitting. There are about 15 that recorded deeper accumulations of snow.
The most snow Henderson County has gotten in one day was 14 inches on Dec. 8, 1917. But the most over two days was 16 inches on Jan. 17 and 18, 1978, which was a full-scale blizzard, according to the National Weather Service.