WEATHER Caught in a large hail event right now

[Dennis Olson]

Actually, two. The first one was at about 6:15. I hustled the dogs into the car and we found shelter. Went home about 6;45. This one caught me off guard. It’s been going on for a half hour already. Much larger hail. I ran out leaving the dogs home. I found a partial shelter, but my car is still getting hammered. Some hail the size of golf balls.

I’m getting hammered still. There was a hook echo over my area as well.

 

[desertvet2]

Damn.

 

[Mac]

Manor area?

 

[brokenwings]

We had a hail storm that large a couple of weeks ago. All my neighbors are getting a new roof now. We just got ours last fall and ours held up really well. Hope you don't get too much damages. We still have to turn in our trucks. Both were outside of course.

 

[West]

Hang on!

 

[Mac]

KXAN was reporting est grapefruit sized hail out west near marble falls

 

[Southside]

Sorry dude. Anything bigger than dimes will dent today's cars.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Manor area?

Yeah. Just east.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Sorry dude. Anything bigger than dimes will dent today's cars.

Fortunately I only got a few of the big ones before finding cover.

 

[Mac]

Saw that hail core go right down 290. Figured some poor folks on 130 toll and 290 were having a bad time of it

 

[Dennis Olson]

The lightning is incredible. Sheets of it all around, but no thunder. No idea why that is. It’s really something. And yesterday for the eclipse it was mostly sunny and calm.

 

[Mac]

Glad it is light on thunder but given the light show it is odd. My mutts aren't happy with the weather as it is, lol

 

[Txkstew]

We're fixing to get the first wave you had. The next one is supposed to hit here around 1 am to 2 am. My car is under a metal roof carport. Son's girlfriend's car is going to get put under a tree. We've never gotten big hail here, but there's always a first time.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Well, I’m back. All the streets are filled with downed leaves and the gutters are overflowing because they can’t drain fast enough.

 

[Dennis Olson]

We've never gotten big hail here, but there's always a first time.

In the 12 years I’ve lived here this is the first time that large hail actually hit the ground.

 

[Firebird]

Got caught in golf ball sized hail once, it was brutal! Thought for sure I would lose my windshield, but it held

 

[West]

It should have a smell and feel too.

 

[Txkstew]

Mississippi is getting hammered tonight too. All the way down to Poplarville where Doc 1 lives.

 

[Buick Electra]

In the 12 years I’ve lived here this is the first time that large hail actually hit the ground.

If I had the money, I'd preserve one in my freezer and get it tested.

 

[Terrwyn]

When I was a kid in NE I remember Mom talking about some farmer got killed by hail.

 

[SlipperySlope]

We are predicted for that front to be here tomorrow. I pray for all those in it's path.

 

[Delta]

I hope you and your stuff survived unscathed. But, there are things of this world that are bigger than any of us.

 

[phloydius]

The storm hit us hard as well. Fortunately the cell with the hail missed us (but by only about a mile).

Our power has been out for about an hour now.

 

[Y2KProf]

Got caught in golf ball sized hail once, it was brutal! Thought for sure I would lose my windshield, but it held

On a Veteran's motorcycle "Run for the Wall" trip in 2008, we were riding through rain and suddenly we encountered golf ball and plus sized hail stones south of Nashville Tennessee. We were out in the open and there was nowhere to hide. Several bikes went down (like riding though giant marbles), many bikes had numerus dents and some riders took some really painful hits from hail stone "clusters". I had one of those "clusters" hit the top of my full-face shield helmet and it sounded and felt like someone hit the helmet with a baseball bat - KABOOM. I had something hit my left elbow so hard, that I lost my grip on the left handlebar. That left a really nasty black and blue bruise. One guy picked up a "cluster" from the side of the road that was the size of a large grapefruit. I was really glad I was wearing a helmet, rain gear covering heavy denim pants a thick leather jacket, boots and gloves. Riding a motorcycle into a heavy hailstorm at 60+ mph was one of the scariest events I have ever experienced.

 

[LoupGarou]

The lightning is incredible. Sheets of it all around, but no thunder. No idea why that is. It’s really something. And yesterday for the eclipse it was mostly sunny and calm.

I have been watching that storm and it has been over that same area (Texas and Louisiana) for over two days now, and it just keeps getting stronger. I watched lightning counts go from 8K-12K per hour the first day it was there to over 30K per hour, and now 52K per hour this morning.


Over the area it is seeing 540 some strikes per second.

I'm slightly concerned that maybe this is ground pressure piezoelectric release from pressure building up on a faultline. Many have been watching the continued release of the fault area in the northwest area of Texas and Oklahoma, and we had the slip in NJ a week or so ago...

I don't remember ever seeing a storm "hover" over an area for this long, and especially not get stronger as time goes on.

Gut feeling is that something is about to happen...

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

That weather is supposed to hit Memphis in a few hours.

i sure hope it calms doen some before it artives at my home. Hail the size you all are reporting could give a hen a concussion, it it were to hit one of my birds.

 

[ka5gtc]

We are under a Tornado warning now. Lots of lightning and heavy winds.

 

[phloydius]

Our power has been out for about an hour now.

Waking up this morning. Still without power. But crews are out working in the area.

 

[Txkstew]

That first storm front got about 10 miles from me, and stalled. I could see the crazy lightning storm coming. It then moved North, where it dumped over 8" of rain on Kirbyville and Jasper, Tx. They said fast water rescues were underway in Kirbyville for people in their homes. That area is where the land starts getting hilly in the Piney Woods, moving up from the Coastal Plains. That makes for some small ravines, that channel flood water.

Second wave moved through fast at around 4 am. Power went out twice for just a few seconds, then it moved on. Crazy weather for sure.

 

[SquonkHunter]

We had three different storms here in central Austin yesterday - 8AM, 5PM and 7PM - and all had hail. The worst was the second one with up to 2 inch hailstones. Total of 2 inches rain. Fortunately both vehicles were under cover. We lost a windshield in the last hailstorm in October. Was quite a stressful day.

 

[summerthyme]

I have been watching that storm and it has been over that same area (Texas and Louisiana) for over two days now, and it just keeps getting stronger. I watched lightning counts go from 8K-12K per hour the first day it was there to over 30K per hour, and now 52K per hour this morning.
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Over the area it is seeing 540 some strikes per second.

I'm slightly concerned that maybe this is ground pressure piezoelectric release from pressure building up on a faultline. Many have been watching the continued release of the fault area in the northwest area of Texas and Oklahoma, and we had the slip in NJ a week or so ago...

I don't remember ever seeing a storm "hover" over an area for this long, and especially not get stronger as time goes on.

Gut feeling is that something is about to happen...

Is there some sort of a super strong blocking high to the east holding it in place? Because that is truly weird...

Summerthyme

 

[lisa]

Fortunately I only got a few of the big ones before finding cover.

Are you going out in the hail storm to look for shelter for yourself or for your car? If it's just for your car...that's what insurance is for. You are barely up and walking again...don't be risking yourself for a car.

 

[packyderms_wife]

I have been watching that storm and it has been over that same area (Texas and Louisiana) for over two days now, and it just keeps getting stronger. I watched lightning counts go from 8K-12K per hour the first day it was there to over 30K per hour, and now 52K per hour this morning.
View attachment 469444

Over the area it is seeing 540 some strikes per second.

I'm slightly concerned that maybe this is ground pressure piezoelectric release from pressure building up on a faultline. Many have been watching the continued release of the fault area in the northwest area of Texas and Oklahoma, and we had the slip in NJ a week or so ago...

I don't remember ever seeing a storm "hover" over an area for this long, and especially not get stronger as time goes on.

Gut feeling is that something is about to happen...

There are two ancient volcanoes in the Austin, Texas area.

 

[LightEcho]

I have been watching that storm and it has been over that same area (Texas and Louisiana) for over two days now, and it just keeps getting stronger. I watched lightning counts go from 8K-12K per hour the first day it was there to over 30K per hour, and now 52K per hour this morning.
View attachment 469444

Over the area it is seeing 540 some strikes per second.

I'm slightly concerned that maybe this is ground pressure piezoelectric release from pressure building up on a faultline. Many have been watching the continued release of the fault area in the northwest area of Texas and Oklahoma, and we had the slip in NJ a week or so ago...

I don't remember ever seeing a storm "hover" over an area for this long, and especially not get stronger as time goes on.

Gut feeling is that something is about to happen...

Good thought. I was also considering scalar wave technology- lightning with no thunder. Point lightning energy shots. If you see points light up in the sky, it is scalar weapons.

 

[energy_wave]

All those poor solar collectors. Done in by mother nature.
She knows there's no climate change. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

 

[bluelady]

Are you going out in the hail storm to look for shelter for yourself or for your car? If it's just for your car...that's what insurance is for. You are barely up and walking again...don't be risking yourself for a car.

He just got that car and *really* likes it!

 

[lisa]

He just got that car and *really* likes it!

Lol Yes, but we really like him and just got him back too.

 

[Txkstew]

A lot of homes in America have two car garages, but can't put their car in because it's full of other stuff. Why aren't houses built with enough storage space for all the stuff people have?

 

[Johnny Twoguns]

The lightning is incredible. Sheets of it all around, but no thunder. No idea why that is. It’s really something. And yesterday for the eclipse it was mostly sunny and calm.

Just by happenstance passed through twice on different years, the Sturgis area during the motorcycle rally's. Left the area at night both times. The most spectacular and potentially dangerous lightening storms I've ever been in. Both times rain, dark cloudy nights, lightening as far as you could see in all directions, and at night that is pretty far when lightening is sparking everywhere. Hundreds more likely thousands of strikes. Tried to keep the kids awake to watch as it was a once in a lifetime event for passer through's. Kids......"huh? ok dad................................." snores.

 

[Rabbit]

KXAN was reporting est grapefruit sized hail out west near marble falls

That sounds like frozen bombs.