The current record for a Texas hailstone is 6.4 inches. This one fell during a thunderstorm that also produced a tornado in the Texas Panhandle on Sunday.
An extreme rotating thunderstorm dropped cantaloupe-sized hail and produced a tornado in the Texas Panhandle on Sunday, part of a larger severe weather episode that brought storms all the way to North Dakota. One of the hailstones was at least six inches in diameter, if not larger, and could be declared a Texas state record.
. The National Weather Service issued a first-of-its-kind severe thunderstorm warning listing “DVD-sized hail” as a threat last Tuesday as stones between 4.5 and five inches across fell near the small town of Pettit, west of Lubbock.Sunday’s hail was even larger, and falls into an elite category of “gargantuan” hail. That’s an actual term that scientists use to describe any hail larger than six inches in diameter.
“I came off the canyon yesterday and I was jaw to the floor,” he wrote in a Facebook message. “I figured it would take a bit for to wrap up and produce a tornado, so I hung back to the east a bit to keep the structure in view.”The storm had derived some rotation from a remnant outflow boundary, or leading edge of cool air exhaust left behind by the prior day’s storms.
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