Are you sure it’s only macaroni size Amos? I wanted to throw up a post with some of our old Great Plains chasing expedition from 2003, where we saw a lot of large hail events. That season, Chris Collura, my chase partner, would jump onboard with fellow Chaser Scott Blair, and they would hail core punch the massive Supercells after dark to sample the hail size. It made for some wild video, and many of the vehicles drove away with broken windows and large dents. Some of the video seen in this 2 minute hail video clip, shows 60mph winds with baseball hail going crazy on the cars, and some impressive Golfball to baseball hail near Pratt Kansas after dark.

We see hail every year and have hours of video of it from small pea size to large baseball stones. We seem to find a good hail event each chase season out on the Plains. There’s something about hail, that adds to the whole chasing of severe storms, that makes it complete. I enjoy trying to race out ahead of the large hail core, it really is kind of fun. When your looking out your back window at a greenish hue, you know that your about to get hammered by large hail soon. The larger the stones, the farther apart they fall from each other. You can be standing on the side of the road shooting video of the Supercell or tornado, and hear isolated “thumps” on the ground around you, and see golfball hail stones bouncing your way.

It’s very rare to see any really large hail when chasing storms in Florida, but when out on the American Great Plains (Tornado Alley), your sure to find yourself either deep in a hail core, or racing away from one when chasing mother natures awesome Mesocyclone storms along the dryline.

I hope you enjoy the hail video highlight clip. Credits: Chris Collura, Scott Blair, Jeff Gammons  Watch more storm chasing video.

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