another look at Friday's Storm

Not sure who took these awesome photos, this arrived in an email from Marilyn, please enjoy. Another look at Friday's storm.

Nasty little squall blew through this morning at about 9 o’clock.

The leading edge wasn’t as pretty as I had hoped it would be, but it wasn’t too bad. The first thing I noticed was that the sky behind the leading edge was a nice green color. If you recall from a previous email back in February, green skies typically indicate the presence of hail. Windy little sucker, too. The clouds just above the stadium lights here had to be pushing to the south at or over 100 mph. I’m glad those weren’t reaching ground level because I would have been blown to somewhere in North Texas.

“Greenage”.

After a nice downpour and gust front, the hail started to fall. It started as some nickels and dimes, but quickly grew to quarters and then golfballs.

A collection of golfballs and maybe a little larger.

Now up to the proverbial “hen-egg” sized hail. Maybe racquetballs.

Still about the same size, but I thought the banded core was pretty cool.

I thought this one was pretty cool looking. It was flat on the top and bottom, but had this ruffled look in the middle. Sort of looked like the cap of a mushroom. Really bizare, but that’s why I like the weather. It’s pretty random.

According to my computer, there were some radar detected areas of 3.5 inch hail. That’s getting into the big stuff now. Sort of between baseballs and softballs. Usually the radar program over-sizes the hail, meaning what actually hits the ground isn’t as big as the radar program says it is. This time it was.

This can ruin your day in a hurry.

Bigger than a quarter.

After 10 minutes of palming this thing, it has shrunk considerably. Even though some time had passed, it still measured in at 3 inches