Baseball-sized hail pounds Amarillo

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Baseball-sized hail pounds Amarillo

#1 Postby GalvestonDuck » Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:33 pm

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/06/ ... index.html

(Got the link from Yahoo news search -- only one that I could find with a pic)

Sometimes, I'm amazed that I've never been in a hailstorm. I've seen it a couple of times *after* a storm when I walk outside and find it all over the ground. But I've never been out and about on foot or in my car when hail started falling.
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#2 Postby Skywatch_NC » Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:57 pm

Heard on the noon news that a patient was injured by flying glass from a hailstone that crashed in his/her hospital window! :eek: :(

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#3 Postby azsnowman » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:31 pm

Growing up, I spent time on my grandparents farm in the Panhandle of Texas...their farm was approx 24 miles SE of Amarillo, I can remember MANY a summer, we'd have to hit the storm cellar and we could hear hailstones POUNDING the cellar door, we'd peek out after it was over, pick up hailstones the size of golfballs or bigger and EAT them!

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#4 Postby Rainband » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:33 pm

Wow!!! Thats some huge Hail :eek:
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#5 Postby PTrackerLA » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:29 pm

Largest hail I've ever seen has been golfball size. Many years ago while I was in colorado during the summer I was caught in a hailstorm while driving and the hail completely covered the ground.
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#6 Postby smerby » Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:23 pm

AZ

Just like biting into an onion. 8-)

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