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catbyte

(37,608 posts) Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:29 PM Mar 2025

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 2025 OP

Nice click bait image of the basket ball sized hail at a towyard. The actual footage was dramatic enough ... marble falls Mar 2025 #1

A factoid from the internets...The largest hailstone on record in the US was measured at 8 inches in diameter mitch96 Mar 2025 #2

marble falls

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

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:43 PM

Mar 2025

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

mitch96

(15,415 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 2025

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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