Marble Sized Hail

Strips leaves off plants damages vegetables in gardens.

Marble sized hail.

Piles of large hail near midland. We encourage measurement not estimation of hail size. Large hail in eastern lapeer county. There were many more reports of of pea and marble size hail.

0 6 2 4 inches. Hail becomes severe when it is 1 inch or larger in diameter or about the size of a quarter. Makes holes in leaves and flowering plants. 0 4 1 8 inches.

When marble sized hail is reported we must decide if it s a big marble or small marble and how big of. However it should be noted that hail is produced by wind updrafts shooting raindrops higher into the atmosphere where it freeze before it falls to your roof. Converting traditional hail size descriptions traditional object to size conversion for assessment and translation of severe hail reports. Hail is usually pea sized to marble sized but big thunderstorms can produce big hail.

The largest hailstone recovered in the u s. 0 2 1 2 inches. Fell in vivian sd on june 23 2010 with a diameter of 8 inches. Photo courtesy of jaqlyn avouris.