We got into some 5-plus-inch hail and completely totaled the vehicle,” recalled Gensini, who was a student at the time. “That ...

Central Texas has seen numerous instances of hail roughly the size of DVDs over the past month, sparked by huge thunderstorms ...

A strong updraft can support really big hail. This process alone creates that nice smooth hail, layer by layer. But spiky hail occurs when the turbulent upper-atmospheric winds of a thunderstorm ...

The fixation with big hail goes back to at least the 1960s ... Spherical hailstones are thought to have tumbled around in the supercell; spiky ones shoot like comets through the storm.

Some hailstones are very spiky while other hailstones are very ... while some of the rarest hail can get as big as grapefruits (4.5 inches) or larger! Fewer than 10% of all hail reports are ...

The National Weather Service Fort Worth said “very large hail” is expected in North Texas late Wednesday, April 2. How big is “very large hail” and does that equate to an actual measurement?

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hail forms when raindrops freeze in extremely cold areas of the atmosphere within thunderstorms. Hailstone sizes range from pea to ...

The hail in Colorado this year has been huge ... A storm also needs a strong rotating updraft to suspend hailstones long enough to grow big. Thunderstorms with rotating updrafts are known as ...