jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #1 Posted April 13, 2022 This fell yesterday in Salado, Texas. Salado is a very cool old Texas town that has become an artists enclave with tons of B&B's and restaurants on the Salado River in central Texas. Used to be a stagecoach stop. Have not heard how bad the damage is to the old part of Salado. 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted April 13, 2022 Share #2 Posted April 13, 2022 That's dent your car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share #3 Posted April 13, 2022 1 minute ago, Kirby said: That's dent your car It is not uncommon for hail stones to go through the roofs, windows, and sunlights on houses and to go through sunroofs, windows and even the body panels of cars in Texas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Longjohn ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Popular Post Share #4 Posted April 13, 2022 1 minute ago, jsharr said: It is not uncommon for hail stones to go through the roofs, windows, and sunlights on houses and to go through sunroofs, windows and even the body panels of cars in Texas. Not to mention what it did to their middle finger. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share #5 Posted April 13, 2022 1 minute ago, Longjohn said: Not to mention what it did to their middle finger. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #6 Posted April 13, 2022 Whatever they did to that finger they should have left the splint on longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share #7 Posted April 13, 2022 6 minutes ago, Longjohn said: Whatever they did to that finger they should have left the splint on longer. the whole thing is funny but I started that the crooked part 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 13, 2022 Share #8 Posted April 13, 2022 23 minutes ago, jsharr said: This fell yesterday in Salado, Texas. I was watching the Weather Channel the other night and they were talking about hail and how big it can get. I thought I heard them say that 8 inches is the record. I must have misunderstood because that looks bigger than 8 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share #9 Posted April 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, Road Runner said: I was watching the Weather Channel the other night and they were talking about hail and how big it can get. I thought I heard them say that 8 inches is the record. I must have misunderstood because that looks bigger than 8 inches. I will file this under "Things jsharr will never hear" also, are you sure what you were watching was the Weather Channel? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 13, 2022 Share #10 Posted April 13, 2022 1 minute ago, jsharr said: I will file this under "Things jsharr will never hear" also, are you sure what you were watching was the Weather Channel? As I wrote that, I thought of a number of things that I could have added, but decided to let the forum have fun with it instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 13, 2022 Share #11 Posted April 13, 2022 According to my calculations, an eight inch sphere of water (ice) should weigh more than 9 pounds. It seems amazing to me that a chunk of hail that big and heavy could be kept aloft by winds in a thunderstorm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #12 Posted April 13, 2022 35 minutes ago, Longjohn said: Whatever they did to that finger they should have left the splint on longer. Or pay more attention to the bent carrot ads. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share #13 Posted April 13, 2022 4 minutes ago, Road Runner said: According to my calculations, an eight inch sphere of water (ice) should weigh more than 9 pounds. It seems amazing to me that a chunk of hail that big and heavy could be kept aloft by winds in a thunderstorm. Not sure it is solid. It is a bunch of smaller stones that tumble and freeze to each other, so lots of chances for air spaces, or elongation. Seldom a perfect sphere at that size. I bet they get rounder each time they are taken out of the freezer for display as they melt and reform as well. When they first hit the ground, they are funky shaped in my experience, but biggest we have had were golf ball or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #14 Posted April 13, 2022 49 minutes ago, jsharr said: This fell yesterday in Salado, Texas. Salado is a very cool old Texas town that has become an artists enclave with tons of B&B's and restaurants on the Salado River in central Texas. Used to be a stagecoach stop. Have not heard how bad the damage is to the old part of Salado. I was watching that one on Flightaware. There was an active tornado associated with the weather as well. I was curious why an American flight was tucked right up beside it. Hail loses up to 70% of its mass by the time it reaches the ground so imagine how big that could have been within the cell. That is why there is no shortage of this kind of picture online. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #15 Posted April 13, 2022 wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share #16 Posted April 13, 2022 3 minutes ago, Wilbur said: I was watching that one on Flightaware. There was an active tornado associated with the weather as well. I was curious why an American flight was tucked right up beside it. Hail loses up to 70% of its mass by the time it reaches the ground so imagine how big that could have been within the cell. That is why there is no shortage of this kind of picture online. We need a WOW emoji! That is crazy. Have you ever flown in bad hail? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #17 Posted April 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, jsharr said: We need a WOW emoji! That is crazy. Have you ever flown in bad hail? Sure. It isn't comforting and isn't something we try to do. Hail just has very poor radar reflectivity so it doesn't show up on weather radar. Better to give storms 20 miles or so and hail may even be out that far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share #18 Posted April 13, 2022 Just now, Wilbur said: Sure. It isn't comforting and isn't something we try to do. Hail just has very poor radar reflectivity so it doesn't show up on weather radar. Better to give storms 20 miles or so and hail may even be out that far. So do you take immediate evasive action, course change, change of altitude? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #19 Posted April 13, 2022 8 minutes ago, jsharr said: So do you take immediate evasive action, course change, change of altitude? Hail, yes! All of the above. I have even delayed and cancelled flights if it looks as though there is no safe way through it. Deviations are very common and you always have the option of 180 degree deviation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share #20 Posted April 13, 2022 11 minutes ago, Wilbur said: Hail, yes! All of the above. I have even delayed and cancelled flights if it looks as though there is no safe way through it. Deviations are very common and you always have the option of 180 degree deviation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #21 Posted April 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, jsharr said: Yep. That is me! Airlines are expected to keep to their schedules so you see a lot of hail damage. If I did that to my boss's 50 million dollar airplane, I would be kicking stones. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted April 13, 2022 Share #22 Posted April 13, 2022 1 hour ago, jsharr said: the whole thing is funny but I started that the crooked part My latest favorite comedian. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted April 13, 2022 Share #23 Posted April 13, 2022 That’s some crazy hail. Biggest I’ve ever experienced is about quarter sized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #24 Posted April 13, 2022 My car was totaled in a big hail storm. They let me buy it back for a few hundred bucks and keep driving it. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted April 13, 2022 Share #25 Posted April 13, 2022 At Pratt and Whitney we used to test engines and components for rain, hail, bird ingestion. Birds are bad as are chunks of ice that may form on the leading enge of the cowling. The engine is designed so that hopefull it retains enough thrust to carry it's own weight and drag or under the very worst circumstances if it sheds blades and parts that they are contained withing the cowling and do not strike the fuselage. When I was an apprentice there I worked some video shoots of "spin pit" tests where a fan is spinning horizontally in a round pit submerged in the floor. Objects like birds are dropped onto the spinning fan and video is shot to see what the impact does in real time. I once witnessed a test drop of a flock of birds, perhapse a dozen or more. There was also a bird cannon at the outdoor test cell where a bird carcus could be fired into a running engine. That led to a funny story about a young engineer (probably not true, but one can never tell) who was responsible for getting the birds (turkey) ready and loading and firing the cannon. His day came and the cannon was fired and the engine just about scattered parts all over the property. An older engineer slid up next to the shocked kid and gently enquired "you did thaw out the bird didn't you"? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted April 13, 2022 Share #26 Posted April 13, 2022 5 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: That led to a funny story about a young engineer (probably not true, but one can never tell) who was responsible for getting the birds (turkey) ready and loading and firing the cannon. His day came and the cannon was fired and the engine just about scattered parts all over the property. An older engineer slid up next to the shocked kid and gently enquired "you did thaw out the bird didn't you"? Yeah, I got fired over that one... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution 12string Posted April 13, 2022 Solution Share #27 Posted April 13, 2022 Wow, I've heard of fish falling from the sky, but never hands! Good idea to keep it iced until they can fingerprint it and find out who it belongs to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share #28 Posted April 14, 2022 19 hours ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said: Yeah, I got fired over that one... That was a cold thing to do 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted April 14, 2022 Share #29 Posted April 14, 2022 Forecasts of hail always make me wish I had my garage clear. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now