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On Monday, I posted the initial ballot for a KY Weather Event Hall Of Fame. However, the events that we will likely be inducting after this point are going to be post-2000 events, and that seemed a bit unfair to me to the systems that struck the state during the pre-2000 years. Sticking with my initial inductee prerequisites, here are the events I am inducting this year from pre-2000 and why:
April 3-4, 1974 tornado outbreak. This one is an obvious one. Though not every county or city was hit across the state, we were apart of one of the most significant tornado outbreaks (second to April 27, 2011 now) in US history, and we had the only F-5 tornado in state history to pass through on that day. 148 tornadoes touched down in 24 hours that day.
January 17th-19th, 1994 winter storm. This event was insane by all standards. Louisville set records for 24 hour snowfall during this event, and the all time record cold low was set in Shelbyville at -37ºF! To make matter worse, this system had been written off by many meteorologists across the region. This created substantial difficulties in terms of travel and even living.
January 7th, 1996 winter storm. This is an event that dropped significant amounts of snowfall on the whole state, and almost the entire northeast as it moved across the country. Amounts were up and over a foot of snowfall across much of the state.
March 13th, 1993 superstorm. This one is debatable, but was significant enough in the eastern half of the state to warrant it in. This was the original superstorm, as it explosively developed across the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and traversed the eastern US. It dumped feet and feet of snowfall to the northwest of its track, and shut down travel to much of the eastern US. Eastern KY saw a very substantial snowfall event, as several areas received close to 2 feet.
February 3-6th, 1998 winter storm. This was an unusual event, as it used significant moisture from the Atlantic Ocean to dump snowfall across the state. It pour on snow in the feet across a wide swath of central and eastern KY, and heavily impacted travel across the state.
Those are the automatics that I think should be in there, however, I may be missing some. If there are any others that I am missing, just let me know!