Hellacious Hail Footage from StormStock
Hail is frozen precipitation in the form of lumps of ice, or "stones" created when rain is pushed above the freezing level by a thunderstorm’s updraft. Hail stones grow larger with subsequent passes until they become too heavy to be supported by the updraft and fall to earth. It’s something the cinematographers for Prairie Pictures’ StormStock know well.
"Even small hail, around an inch in diameter, can be deafening inside a house or car," StormStock founder Martin Lisius said. "Imagine what softball-size hail would be like."
Lisius intercepted hail like that near Burkburnett, Texas earlier this year while tracking a slow moving supercell thunderstorm, a large, rotating storm infamous for producing giant chunks of ice. This time, the hail was 5.33" in diameter, larger than a softball. In June 2003, Lisius was on the storm that produced world record size hail at Aurora, Nebraska. That hail measured 7.0 inches (17.78 cm) in diameter with an 18.75 inch (47.63 cm) circumference. "I was filming on the south edge of the storm looking north up the highway into town and could see giant hail exploding on the pavement, and could hear an intense hail roar," Lisius said.
See StormStock’s hail screener, and download hail preview clips at https://www.stormstock.com/hail
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