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What the hail..?

PRB

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Hail producing thunderstorm just rolled through here. Among them were these two I just picked up off the grass (after the ice cubes stopped falling, of course). Dang! Glad I wasn't driving through that. The circular patterns are rather interesting though...
 
Windshield busters!, concussion givers, ya'll come back now! NO WAY!
I lived in MO for 6 years. The storms in comparison to the PNW are 10 fold. I was a shaking in my shoes more times than I can remember. I don't miss that part of the country one bit.
 
The rings are cool because they point to how many round trips in the updrafts were made before going one way down to your lawn.
 
aeromed202 said:
The rings are cool because they point to how many round trips in the updrafts were made before going one way down to your lawn.
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I knew about the rings, and what they represented, but I never examined one up close before. That the rings were so well defined surprised me. Also, the outside edges seemed like they were made up of little balls of ice that "attached" themselves to the core "ice cube". The other interesting bit was that they were not balls of ice, but disks. You can see this in the pics. That's odd. Can't explain that one. Some of the smaller pellets were little balls, but these big ones were more like disks. As I was standing in my garage watching the show, I saw a couple of my neighbors driving up the road to their house. I think these were big enough to cause car damage... As to the tornado situation, "weather guesser" on the local TV cannel said these storms were not tornado producers, but just "pop-up" thunderstorms. It went on all night, mostly heavy rain, but some lightning.
 
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