‘Baseball Size’ Hail Falls in Texas as Storms Whip Across South
Hail as large as baseballs fell in Texas on Wednesday, officials said, as thunderstorms whipped across parts of the American South and forecasters warned of possible damage from flying debris and flash flooding in low-lying areas over the next two days.
Storms across Central Texas were producing “very large, destructive hail” early Wednesday evening, including four-inch specimens that fell over Waco, a city south of Dallas, the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth said on Twitter.
Waco’s police department said that one of its officers’ cars had been hit with “baseball-size hail.” Unconfirmed reports streaming into the National Weather Service said that hail falling around Texas ranged from the size of nickels to golf balls.
Large hail was also observed as storms rolled through Florida on Wednesday afternoon. In the city of West Melbourne, southeast of Orlando, the National Weather Service meteorologist Tony Cristaldi posted a video showing hail hitting cars in his driveway, and what he called a “river of ice” floating down his street.
Source: The New York Times
