Vivian South Dakota hail storm pics

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Thsi is from Keloland.com

The National Weather Service says a hailstone that fell south of the South Dakota capital of Pierre might be a world record.

Meteorologist Jim Scarlett says the chunk of ice landed near the town of Vivian Friday night. He says members of the National Climate Extremes Committee will meet this week to evaluate the stone and determine whether it is a record.

The record-holding hailstone fell in Aurora, Nebraska, on June 22, 2003. It was 7 inches in diameter with a circumference of 18.75 inches.

The Vivian hailstone unofficially measured 8 inches in diameter with an 18.5-inch circumference.
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As a seasoned insurance adjuster(35 years), I can tell you these events with hail of this size are limited geography wise. Look closely at the stones and you will see they are made up of many, smaller sized hail. The stones build up as they are sucked back up, higher and higher into the atmosphere. 60,000 ft possible. Generally speaking, the bigger they are the less the number.
In 1980,on my first hailstorm experience, Platte SD., I saw stones approaching this size. You would see 1 car, 1 hit like the one posted. This was at Armour SD, east of Platte. The storm started west of Platte with golfball size hail. That's where the pheasant damage was done as the golfball size hail was incredibly thick. The trees looked like the dead of winter in Platte--not a leaf in site. At one large farm that commercially hunted, Natchtigals, you could smell the dead pheasants. The storm was June 9th, so just entering peak hatch. East on to Armour the stones grew but quickly diminished in numbers. Small cattle and pigs died or had their backs broken however. Mean stuff.
If coming this fall bring your boots. Lots of areas with 30 + in of moisture this year. It's flooding a 100 yards from where I sit after 4" last night and they are claiming 7-9" last nite in the Wessington Springs-Woonsocket area where they only got 40-60% of their crop in anyway.
The good news is I had a 3 dog point in the backyard two days ago on 8 young birds that were well grown. ;)
 
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