slo’s THURSDAY 4/3 poll - Hail

[fla4fun]

Softball size...although the memories are more in pictures and impacted relics.

We were living in Ohio in 1974 on the "Day of 100 Tornadoes" super outbreak. I believe there were actually 148 confirmed tornadoes from the system, including a combined total of 30 F4s and F5s. We were close enough to the Sayler Park F5 that we got hail of that magnitude. It's going to sound nuts, but my mom put a large pot on her head so she could run outside really quickly to collect a few samples of this enormous hail. She put the hail in the freezer so my dad could inspect it and photograph it later. I remember the giant hail stones residing in there for a while after. Oh, and she still has the pot...which is heavily dented from the massive hail.

One word . . .Xenia. I was just a little kid but for years everything was compared to Xenia in 1974. I don’t remember if we had any hail that day. I do remember spending most of those two days in the basement playing under a table.

The largest hail I remember seeing personally was probably pea sized. Just barely large enough to see it bounce in the grass as it hit. It does make a lot of noise on our tile roof even when it’s small though.

 

[lorimt]

I live in the DFW area in a section that is prone to frequent hail. We have had to replace the roof on our house twice in 18 years and have had severe damage to multiple cars. Here are a few pictures from different hail storms.

 

[Dan Murphy]

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I live in the DFW area in a section that is prone to frequent hail. We have had to replace the roof on our house twice in 18 years and have had severe damage to multiple cars. Here are a few pictures from different hail storms.

Those are BIG.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

One word . . .Xenia. I was just a little kid but for years everything was compared to Xenia in 1974. I don’t remember if we had any hail that day. I do remember spending most of those two days in the basement playing under a table.

The largest hail I remember seeing personally was probably pea sized. Just barely large enough to see it bounce in the grass as it hit. It does make a lot of noise on our tile roof even when it’s small though.

Yes! We weren't near Xenia, but I had to do a 6th grade paper on the devastation they faced from those storms.

 

[slo]

Yesterday, you guys in NW Indiana, @slo, got it worse than us in NW Chicago area. We had buckets of cooling rain during the early afternoon time, which helped to temper the instability the was in the air all around the Chicago area. We were in the clear as NW Indiana was getting hammered in the late afternoon. Hope you did okay yesterday.

The last two Wednesdays we’ve gotten hit hard with storms - it’s been kinda crazy. We did ok - no damages. Thank you for asking