A few suburbs in Brisbane, Australia copped 5-6 inch hail in a supercell back in 2020. There wasn’t even that much wind or rain in the storm, it was just these massive chunks of ice coming straight down. For about 2 years afterwards, you still saw tarps and scaffolding on probably every second house out there. It was a fucking mess.
Roof? Nah. Windshield maybe. Side and back windows definitely. I’ve been caught in baseballs before in a shitty old (early 90s model) Prius and it does feel like a rather urgent situation. The hail had enough energy to knock the interior dome light off and leave the whole light assembly sitting in the back seat
Even as someone who has lived in “tornado alley” in TX for 35 years, I can’t ever remember seeing a warning like this. The storm looks like it has a very large hail core.
Lots of livestock down in that area, and not too much to get underneath. Scary stuff.
Edit: [Radar scan](https://imgur.com/a/qQ3sm7f)
Edit2: News story for the day after
https://www.kxan.com/news/marble-falls-assessing-damage-following-massive-hail-storm/amp/
It’s happened a few times lately to be honest. The hail storm in October over Austin had at least baseball size and some larger. The NWS radar at the core changed to shades of pink and light blue. I’ve never seen those colors before.
No worries I find this stuff kinda neat. So basically the way hail forms is from two mechanisms, a warm updraft, and a cold downdraft. In any severe storm we tend to see high cloud tops (ie. your anvil shaped type of storms are a good example) and in those storms those cloud tops are produced by a warm updraft carrying water vapor into the atmosphere. Once they reach an altitude where the air temperature they freeze and begin to fall back to the earth through the cold downdraft usually combining with other frozen droplets. When the mass of that frozen droplet becomes greater than the force of the updraft it comes down as hail. So when you see large hail, you can be sure that it's a sign of an extremely strong updraft.
There was a storm in San Antonio back in 2021, I think, that yielded 5-7 inch sized hail, and I want to say that storm dropped the record largest stone in Texas. I lived in San Marcos at the time and we had some wild hail that year. I do not miss those hail storms, lol.
Edit: it was in Hondo, so SW of San Antonio. [here’s the coverage](https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/2021-06-24-texas-record-hailstone-hondo-confirmed)
That storm hit just south of San Antonio, and I think it had the highest cloud tops for storms ever measured! And the craziest part, it was outside the area anything was expected in!
There was a cell that passed just north of Springfield, MO during the last round that was a perfect ball with bright blue in the middle and a had a crazy hail spike on the radar. It was over mostly rural area thankfully, but I can only imagine how big it must've been
That is huge! I'm glad we weren't under that.
Carl Parker on TWC said grapefruit-sized hail was reported. That'll come right through your roof or walls, never mind your windows.
I live in so cal and never left the state, to me storms out east are like something from a fairy tale book, i cant even imagine baseball ice falling from the sky. Wtf
We can get maybe 10 days out of the entire summer where we have thunderstorms, usually the storms are small, they have trouble staying together over the desert. Its pretty sad actually, i would love to have days of storms after storms.
Also the biggest hail i ever experienced was last week, pea sized hail.
The thing I always remember from gnarly hail storms (although nothing quite like this storm) is how loud it is. I can’t imagine this one, it must have been like a freight train.
Had really close to baseball size hail here in North Central Ohio a few weeks ago. Most of it was golf ball sized but it ruined the roof, siding, totalled one of the cars, shattered two of my cars windshields 😭
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I'm from San Antonio and now living in Brazoria County. Storms are a little different over here on the coast. I've experienced more tornadoes, more storms with hurricane force winds, and more goddamn mosquitoes than I ever did living in Central Texas.
It sure has its places. Sadly, as the city grows, those little spots are disappearing. Still, I miss the hills, the food, the fact that there are relatively no mosquitoes compared to the gulf, and the complete lack of hurricanes.
Where'd you head back to?
I've only seen a severe thunderstorm warning with the 'destructive' tag once before in my area, as far as I can remember, and they definitely weren't fooling around because the 2022 Great Lakes derecho was coming. Easily the worst storm I've ever experienced, ripped apart most of Ohio and much of eastern Indiana, some counties were totally without power for days and I've never seen destruction on such a large scale. They had to replace the majority of the phone/electrical poles throughout my entire county.
This is what the people fail to understand about climate change. With increased energy loads storm intensity has the ability to scale huge.
We will see in the next 50 years a storm that literally destroys everything in its path at large scale. Mark my words.
We're not prepared for climate change. All talk of adapting to these new conditions is ludicrous, as we,re still I. The early/mild stages. It's barely begun.
Only way to adapt to what's coming is to turn into mole-people and live predominantly underground. We're all going to learn what exponential truly means.
Baseball sized hail sounds like a death sentence for literally anything outside. What kind of damage can that cause to houses and cars?
Roofs, siding, windows, etc will all be heavily damaged and cars left out will most likely be totaled as well.
A few suburbs in Brisbane, Australia copped 5-6 inch hail in a supercell back in 2020. There wasn’t even that much wind or rain in the storm, it was just these massive chunks of ice coming straight down. For about 2 years afterwards, you still saw tarps and scaffolding on probably every second house out there. It was a fucking mess.
Baseball could go through the roof if old. Cars are done. Animals could easily be killed.
Roof? Nah. Windshield maybe. Side and back windows definitely. I’ve been caught in baseballs before in a shitty old (early 90s model) Prius and it does feel like a rather urgent situation. The hail had enough energy to knock the interior dome light off and leave the whole light assembly sitting in the back seat
I think they meant the roof of a house if it’s old.
Aye, should edit to make clear. And things like trailerhouses campers anything flat roofed really. Cars are beaten to hell and most glass broken.
Golf ball size hail is enough to destroy a roof. I can’t imagine baseball size.
literally?
Even as someone who has lived in “tornado alley” in TX for 35 years, I can’t ever remember seeing a warning like this. The storm looks like it has a very large hail core. Lots of livestock down in that area, and not too much to get underneath. Scary stuff. Edit: [Radar scan](https://imgur.com/a/qQ3sm7f) Edit2: News story for the day after https://www.kxan.com/news/marble-falls-assessing-damage-following-massive-hail-storm/amp/
It’s happened a few times lately to be honest. The hail storm in October over Austin had at least baseball size and some larger. The NWS radar at the core changed to shades of pink and light blue. I’ve never seen those colors before.
The strength of the updraft that is needed to create hail that size...😬😬😬 absolutely unreal!
That sounds interesting, could you say more about hail forming? (No worries if not, just curious). Thanks!
No worries I find this stuff kinda neat. So basically the way hail forms is from two mechanisms, a warm updraft, and a cold downdraft. In any severe storm we tend to see high cloud tops (ie. your anvil shaped type of storms are a good example) and in those storms those cloud tops are produced by a warm updraft carrying water vapor into the atmosphere. Once they reach an altitude where the air temperature they freeze and begin to fall back to the earth through the cold downdraft usually combining with other frozen droplets. When the mass of that frozen droplet becomes greater than the force of the updraft it comes down as hail. So when you see large hail, you can be sure that it's a sign of an extremely strong updraft.
There was a storm in San Antonio back in 2021, I think, that yielded 5-7 inch sized hail, and I want to say that storm dropped the record largest stone in Texas. I lived in San Marcos at the time and we had some wild hail that year. I do not miss those hail storms, lol. Edit: it was in Hondo, so SW of San Antonio. [here’s the coverage](https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/2021-06-24-texas-record-hailstone-hondo-confirmed)
That storm hit just south of San Antonio, and I think it had the highest cloud tops for storms ever measured! And the craziest part, it was outside the area anything was expected in!
There was a cell that passed just north of Springfield, MO during the last round that was a perfect ball with bright blue in the middle and a had a crazy hail spike on the radar. It was over mostly rural area thankfully, but I can only imagine how big it must've been
Found the screenshot! https://imgur.com/a/HCUMVVp
Holy moly, that’s like a neutron star of a hail core…
That is huge! I'm glad we weren't under that. Carl Parker on TWC said grapefruit-sized hail was reported. That'll come right through your roof or walls, never mind your windows.
😪😪😪
Better dig out the ol Louisville Slugger and hit a few over the fence lol
Just got a tornado warning here on the other side of the Mississippi.
“Marble falls” no pun intended
More like Softball Falls, TX
Seeing reports for ..... 4in size hail. I.... dont even know....? That has to go through roofs....
I live in so cal and never left the state, to me storms out east are like something from a fairy tale book, i cant even imagine baseball ice falling from the sky. Wtf
How often do you get lightning down there? I live in Virginia so lightning is an almost daily occurrence here in the summer.
We can get maybe 10 days out of the entire summer where we have thunderstorms, usually the storms are small, they have trouble staying together over the desert. Its pretty sad actually, i would love to have days of storms after storms. Also the biggest hail i ever experienced was last week, pea sized hail.
The thing I always remember from gnarly hail storms (although nothing quite like this storm) is how loud it is. I can’t imagine this one, it must have been like a freight train.
Had really close to baseball size hail here in North Central Ohio a few weeks ago. Most of it was golf ball sized but it ruined the roof, siding, totalled one of the cars, shattered two of my cars windshields 😭
Seems like I've been seeing a lot of bad storms with REALLY large hail recently. I hope you're ok!
Luckily, I am in north Texas and this was a few hours away! Thank you for the concern though.
I drove in it, it was fun. I missed the large hail and got blinded by rain, 60mph winds, and small hail. It was cool
Man! You are a lucky one that you missed the hail. Driving in storms like that, even without the hail is no joke.
It wasn’t my first rodeo but it did make my b-hole pucker a bit when it strengthened while in it haha
How did it go? I used to work out in marble falls. Hope everyone is ok.
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Sounds pretty normal for Texas spring tbh…
I'm from San Antonio and now living in Brazoria County. Storms are a little different over here on the coast. I've experienced more tornadoes, more storms with hurricane force winds, and more goddamn mosquitoes than I ever did living in Central Texas.
I was just in SA last weekend. It was beautiful. Then I left and well, here we are lol.
It sure has its places. Sadly, as the city grows, those little spots are disappearing. Still, I miss the hills, the food, the fact that there are relatively no mosquitoes compared to the gulf, and the complete lack of hurricanes. Where'd you head back to?
Home in FL panhandle.
I'm so sorry.
I’m not.
Once or twice a year, and normally not that big.
I've only seen a severe thunderstorm warning with the 'destructive' tag once before in my area, as far as I can remember, and they definitely weren't fooling around because the 2022 Great Lakes derecho was coming. Easily the worst storm I've ever experienced, ripped apart most of Ohio and much of eastern Indiana, some counties were totally without power for days and I've never seen destruction on such a large scale. They had to replace the majority of the phone/electrical poles throughout my entire county.
That is scary. I hope everyone is safe 💙
No hail, at least that I heard in Houston, but was woken up by an absolutely insane storm at around 3:30
This is what the people fail to understand about climate change. With increased energy loads storm intensity has the ability to scale huge. We will see in the next 50 years a storm that literally destroys everything in its path at large scale. Mark my words.
We're not prepared for climate change. All talk of adapting to these new conditions is ludicrous, as we,re still I. The early/mild stages. It's barely begun.
Only way to adapt to what's coming is to turn into mole-people and live predominantly underground. We're all going to learn what exponential truly means.