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catbyte

(36,642 posts) Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:29 PM Mar 24

Baseball-Sized Hail Destroys Cars & Homes Yesterday in Texas

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Baseball-Sized Hail Destroys Cars & Homes Yesterday in Texas (Original Post) catbyte Mar 24 OP

Nice click bait image of the basket ball sized hail at a towyard. The actual footage was dramatic enough ... marble falls Mar 24 #1

A factoid from the internets...The largest hailstone on record in the US was measured at 8 inches in diameter mitch96 Mar 24 #2

marble falls

(64,271 posts)

1. Nice click bait image of the basket ball sized hail at a towyard. The actual footage was dramatic enough ...

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Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:43 PM

Mar 24

... just missed us. And it was as bad as the footage claims.

mitch96

(15,082 posts)

2. A factoid from the internets...The largest hailstone on record in the US was measured at 8 inches in diameter

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:55 PM

Mar 24

and 18.625 inches in circumference and weighing 1.94 pounds.
It fell in Vivian, South Dakota on July 23, 2010.

The heaviest hailstone on record, officially recognized by Guinness World Records, weighed 2.25 pounds (1.02 kg) and fell in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, on April 14, 1986.

Dat's a big chunk of ice, eh?

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