WEATHER Caught in a large hail event right now

[Rabbit]

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

Yeah, but everything is bigger in Texas.

 

[Dennis Olson]

That sounds like frozen bombs.

That’s what they are.

 

[Rabbit]

You have been so pleased with your new to you car, I hate to think it is being damaged.

 

[Dennis Olson]

I can live with a couple dings, but if it’s worse, I’ll be crushed.

 

[Southside]

I can live with a couple dings, but if it’s worse, I’ll be crushed.

See your Ins agent for the paintless dent removal. They do a GREAT job

 

[Old Greek]

See your Ins agent for the paintless dent removal. They do a GREAT job

I agree - they repaired my wife's Subaru. They can really take out some pretty good sized dings!

 

[Dennis Olson]

Okay, I managed to get outside and take a look. Preliminarily, I have two dings on the hood. That’s all I could find. It could’ve been a whole lot worse.

 

[anney]

That is great Dennis! We lived in DFW in the mid 90’s when there was a terrible hail storm. It almost totaled my SIL’s car. It was a mess. The storm hit during a Cinco De Mayo festival and hurt a bunch of people. The hail storms were grapefruit and softball sized.
That year there were lots of storms that produced the large hail storms.

 

[Bones]

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

How'd you fare in the storm?

Hope all is well for you.

 

[rob0126]

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

Summerthyme

Maybe something to do with the eclipse and planet alignments?

 

[Shadow]

Okay, I managed to get outside and take a look. Preliminarily, I have two dings on the hood. That’s all I could find. It could’ve been a whole lot worse.

On a very hot day, with the car in the sun, put an ice cube in the center of the dents. Often they will come out.

Shadow

 

[night driver]

And Insurance Assistance is LITERALLY en route to you guys . RELIC and another guy were "And Other Duties As Assigned" to ship all MANNER of things going to your area this afternoon.

 

[Firebird]

That storm is almost to us here in Florida, lots of tornado warnings

 

[phloydius]

Woo Hoo. Power just came back on. Time to charge the batteries back up.

 

[Meadowlark]

No hail in my AO, but a lot of sustained straight line winds 60 mph or so. Lots of cloud to cloud but thankfully no CG's.

 

[Texican]

That is great Dennis! We lived in DFW in the mid 90’s when there was a terrible hail storm. It almost totaled my SIL’s car. It was a mess. The storm hit during a Cinco De Mayo festival and hurt a bunch of people. The hail storms were grapefruit and softball sized.
That year there were lots of storms that produced the large hail storms.

This storm crossed Fort Worth and Dallas leaving lots of damage. Hail stones greater than 4.5 inches. Over a billion dollars in damage.

1995 Mayfest Storm - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Texican....

 

[Meadowlark]

I wonder how many solar panels got trashed?

 

[SquonkHunter]

This storm crossed Fort Worth and Dallas leaving lots of damage. Hail stones greater than 4.5 inches. Over a billion dollars in damage.

1995 Mayfest Storm - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Texican....

I lived in the DFW area then and remember watching the event unfold on live TV. KXAS-TV 5 had a camera pointing out to the employees parking area and showed the damage as it was happening. That was a very long evening.