Hail penatrates homes - 6.5 inch diameter

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[Scythian]

AT 705 PM CDT SUNDAY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS RECEIVED REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL IN AURORA...HAMILTON COUNTY NEBRASKA. INITIAL REPORTS STATED THAT THE HAIL HAD PENETRATED THE ROOF OF A HOME, LEAVING HOLES IN THE STRUCTURE LARGE ENOUGH TO CRAWL THROUGH.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

More proof of global warming.

[Scythian]

THE STONES WERE SAVED AND PLACED IN A FREEZER AT THE RESIDENCE AND TWO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEES WERE SENT TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE AND RECORD THE SIZE. THE HAILSTONE MEASURED 6.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER WITH A CIRCUMFERENCE OF 17.3 INCHES.

THIS COMPARES TO THE POTTER NEBRASKA HAILSTONE ON JULY 12, 1928. THE POTTER NEBRASKA HAILSTONE WAS 5.4 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND WEIGHED APPROXIMATELY 1.5 POUNDS.

[Scythian]

Can you imagine being out on a golf course when 2 pound hail start falling?

[drlevy88]

Good thing that the hailstorm didn't kill the electric power....

[Kenton]

Can you imagine getting caught driving down a freeway with that kind of hail? I'm surprised there weren't any fatalities.

[BenLurkin]

Beat me by ten minutes.

[AngryJawa]

More proof of global warming.

Yes, that added to the new layer of snow out on the Rockies this morning...

We're all gonna die!!!

[theFIRMbss]

>THE HAIL HAD PENETRATED THE ROOF OF A HOME, LEAVING HOLES IN THE STRUCTURE LARGE ENOUGH TO CRAWL THROUGH

Is it normal hail,
or is it small ice comets
from the depths of space?

[AngryJawa]

THE HAILSTONE MEASURED 6.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER WITH A CIRCUMFERENCE OF 17.3 INCHES.

Did it have a JDAM kit attached to it?

[Servant of the Nine]

Is it normal hail, or is it small ice comets from the depths of space?

Easy enough to tell, section one. Hail has a regular layered structure, like a pearl, or tree rings.

If that doesn't suit you, isotopic percentages in the water should settle it.

So9

[Scythian]

California, acting on the tradgedy of Nebraska, now requires that homes be built with at least 1/2" steel rooves and that the hailstones be collected and used as grey water. All homes must be upgraded by 2004 or face foreclosure.

[headsonpikes]

"from the depths of space"

Fortean Society bump. Keep you eyes peeled for frozen fish.

;^)

[Poincare]

As a historical/philosophical side point, Aristotle noted--saying that any farmer knows--that larger hail falls faster than smaller hail. He was of course correct; larger hail achieves a higher terminal velocity as the weight increases as the cube of diameter while the surface area increases as the square.

[Clara Lou]

In Waco, Texas, a few years back some grapefruit-sized hail fell during daylight hours. Knocked some people out completely, knocked some people off of bicycles. I think every single window on the Baylor University campus was broken. What destruction!

[Izzy Dunne]

THE HAILSTONE MEASURED 6.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER WITH A CIRCUMFERENCE OF 17.3 INCHES.

Interesting - I hought they would have been more or less round (spherical).

But a sphere of D = 6.5 should have a circumference of 20.42 inches.

However, a sphere of C = 17.3 inches would have a diameter of 5.50 inches.

Perhaps we have a typo here.

[lepton]

My experience with large hail was that it tended to be a bit like a donut wrapped around a ball, with perpendicular grooves along the donut part.

[freedom9]

There was a wild summer day in Winnipeg several decades ago.
First there were too consecutive thunderstorms that overpowered the drainage system. I lived in a residential area. I happened to glance out the window and saw a guy in a canoe whopping away as he paddled down the avenue.
Several hours later, after the water had drained there was a massive hail storm. In no time at all the ground was white as Christmas.
Broken windows, many dead cats and dogs. That year new car sales all went for specials.

[ASA Vet]

Can you imagine being out on a golf course

Not unless I was really really bored.

[IYAAYAS]

I don't care about the hail, I just want to know when the value for pi was changed.