O/T hail in Tx panhandle

Nancy Howell · Apr 13, 2012

Unbelievable! 3 to 4 ft of hail.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/feet-of-hail-northwest-texas_2012-04-12

641Dave · Apr 13, 2012

Strange days indeed.

That time lapse at the bottom was very interesting!

donjr · Apr 13, 2012

Feet? As in four foots?

bill mart · Apr 13, 2012

link to hail. bill
clickable link

JDB · Apr 13, 2012

Driving on hail is like walking on marbles. I have heard it said that the most dangerous thing on earth is a Texan on ice

Howard H. · Apr 13, 2012

That isn't quite as uncommon as you'd think. 7-8 years ago, we had a similar storm just southwest of Stratford (about 60 miles north of this one), and it also had 3-5 foot layers of hail. It took several days to melt it all even though it was up in the 70's & 80's the next few days.

It had highway 54 closed for several weeks - mainly because the huge rainfall (6-10 inches that night) filled a huge playa lake that covered the road - not from the hail itself. There were huge floating islands of ice in the new lake for several days.

Not long after that, we also had a terrible storm with a lot of hail that washed a car off the road southeast of town - on prairie land so flat you'd say it could never flood - and even though it wasn't that cold that night, the two people it washed out of the car died of exposure from all the hail in the freezing water.

Howard

Anonymous-0 · Apr 14, 2012

"Hail piles up several feet [high] in Texas"
A lazy reporter..
Watch your feet.

O/T hail in Tx panhandle

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