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Location: Reading | This is big! http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=abr&storyid=55671&source=0 Some reports have suggested 11 inch diamater hail! |
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Location: Currently - St Budeaux, Plymouth | WOW! That would certainly do some damage, looking at the pictures it looks around 6 to 8 inches, isnt the record 7 point something inches in Iowa? Could be a record if verified, our last chase day we met a skywarn guy near Pringle, Tx who got hit with 6 inch hail complete hole through his windscreen, the hailstone was later shown by him on the weather channel [12.6.10] |
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Location: Leigh On Sea - & Central London @ Work | I thought the Record as it stands at the moment is from 2003 or 2004 in Aurora (Nebraska) Ian ? |
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Location: Currently - St Budeaux, Plymouth | Ahh! Quick research and your quite correct Paul
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0804_030804_largest... |
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Location: Machynlleth, Mid Wales | 8-inch, 1.9 lb hail report on Accuweather complete with image: http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/34648/monstrous-hail-falls-possible-1.asp Not sure how much use a hard hat would have been! Cheers - John |
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Location: JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS, UK | wow that would hurt - amazes me the weird but similar shape of very large hail |
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Location: Cheltenham | Experiencing that size of hail would be alarming - dread to think of the potential for damage.
It provokes thought too; of the tremendous energy/strength of convection involved in building and suspending such huge hail up in the atmosphere.. |
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Location: Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, England | I also recall the Aura NE Hailstone storm of June 22nd 2003.
I was chasing with Dave Gold and Bill Gargon in the SLT tour van (Was this the 2003 Master class tour?)
We approached the cell south down HW 14 towards I80 with the cell to our West, actually we were out of position and therefore needed to core punch the cell in order to view the South side. In those day we did not have Barron or mobile Internet but we were able a grab a single Radar frame using a cell phone tethered to an Osetec modem card.
We could see the hail up aloft way to our west so we decided to go for it and eventually mad it south of the cell.
We did not actually see the giant hail or indeed the reported tornado? But we had a blast as as far as I was concerned - and that was all that mattered 
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Location: Reading | It's been confirmed as a new record for weight and diameter, but not circumference - see e.g. http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/weather/weather_news/Big-hail-Largest-h... |
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Location: St Albans, Herts | More here on this from the Beeb:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10827538
crazy stuff! |
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Huge hail in S Dakota - July 23 2010
