Oklahoma City hail storm May 16

Takeshi_Kovacs

Dunno if any one else saw this or if it was posted already, but was looking at a few weather vids this evening, and saw this hail event.
Pretty intense fall of hail they got in it.. knocking branches off trees and wrecking pretty much anything outside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG_orGqMKV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFv2W7Duqiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-QQTLfHImo

Deep Easterly

Serious looking weather!! :eek::eek::eek:. Great vids and thanks for posting. The pool one is my personal fave.

delw

:eek:can you imagine that in here in dublin,APOCALIPCTIC :eek:

El Horseboxo

The swimming pool one is crazy. Looks almost like a geyser getting ready to erupt or something. Pity we don't get some of the extreme weather of the American plains. Miss it a lot. I actually have a scar on the back of my head since i was a kid when i got caught in a hail storm. Started off small and rapidly turned to sliotar size. Split the back of me head open just as i made it into a shop front.

I lived in Texas for 8 years, we got these kind of storms a lot, I loved sitting out watching them, coming from Dublin I had never seen the likes. We used to run out grab the biggest hailstones and freeze them and show them off to our visiting Irish relatives

Id love a storm like this.

df1985

does hail like this cause serious injury/death?? surely a few of them to your head could cause serious damage, or if you were driving in it it could smash windshields, cause drivers to lose control?

El Horseboxo

df1985 wrote: »

does hail like this cause serious injury/death?? surely a few of them to your head could cause serious damage, or if you were driving in it it could smash windshields, cause drivers to lose control?

They more so cause slight injury although i remember reports of kids getting concussions on the news from when i lived in Kansas. The one i got hit with hurt like hell but required nothing more than a few stitches. Any of the storms i've been in with large hail started as normal sized hail. So you have time to run for shelter unless you are way out in the open like i was when i was a kid. In the US deaths from hailstorms are quite rare but in other parts of the world they are more frequent. I imagine they would be in poor areas with not much shelter and those who live in shacks. I remember somewhere recording double figure deaths from one hailstorm. Think it may have been China.

And yeah they very much smash windshields. Mostly with big cracks. You'd just slow down and stop. Visibility is usually very bad so you can't see where you are going anyways.

AntiRip

El Horseboxo wrote: »

They more so cause slight injury although i remember reports of kids getting concussions on the news from when i lived in Kansas. The one i got hit with hurt like hell but required nothing more than a few stitches. Any of the storms i've been in with large hail started as normal sized hail. So you have time to run for shelter unless you are way out in the open like i was when i was a kid. In the US deaths from hailstorms are quite rare but in other parts of the world they are more frequent. I imagine they would be in poor areas with not much shelter and those who live in shacks. I remember somewhere recording double figure deaths from one hailstorm. Think it may have been China.

And yeah they very much smash windshields. Mostly with big cracks. You'd just slow down and stop. Visibility is usually very bad so you can't see where you are going anyways.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2924651/Storm-is-hail-on-earth-for-jogger.html

thetonynator

AntiRip wrote: »

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2924651/Storm-is-hail-on-earth-for-jogger.html

And I thought i looked bad after paintballing!!!

WolfeIRE

can hail cause acne?

incredible videos, especially the swimming pool.

AntiRip wrote: »

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2924651/Storm-is-hail-on-earth-for-jogger.html