On Friday night, May 22, 2020, a hailstone of 5.33” diameter was reported in Burkburnett, Texas (the same hailstone shown in this Facebook post). (That hailstone was said to have actually been 11” in diameter before a portion of it melted prior to being officially measured.) However, the Argentine hailstone will likely never become an official record, since its size was estimated only from video evidence and not from any first-hand measurements. record holder, an 8-inch-diameter stone collected near Vivian, South Dakota on July 23, 2010. If verified, the Argentine hailstone would surpass the U.S. The Weather Channel’s Chris Dolce has a summary of the event, which has been documented in a February paper for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society entitled “ Gargantuan Hail in Argentina.” The authors propose that hailstones larger than 6” in diameter be classified as “gargantuan”. Recently, an investigation into a hailstorm that took place in Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba Province, Argentina on February 8, 2018, reported that a hailstone some 9.3 inches in diameter may have fallen during a storm there. The hail in this photograph, however, drifted this deep after floodwaters washed it into these giant heaps in a low-lying area. Above: Hail can accumulate to remarkable depths when a storm becomes stationary over one place for a period of time.
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