Cantaloupe-size hail keeps bombarding Texas
Some of the hailstones are more than six inches in diameter.Mammoth hail keeps pelting parts of Central Texas.
Cantaloupe-size hail — approximately six inches in diameter — was recovered following rotating supercell thunderstorms earlier this week. One of the stones that fell in Menard, Texas, was 5.87 inches across and was picked up by a team of researchers conducting a hail study field mission. While it just missed this threshold, the technical term for six-inch hail is “gargantuan” (yes, really).
A year ago this week, meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Lubbock issued the first-ever “DVD-size hail” warning, corresponding to stones at least 4.75 to 5 inches in diameter.
Hail that large is difficult to detect on radar. Unless forecasters receive real-time reports from storm chasers or the public, most warnings are usually for softball-size (four inches in diameter) or grapefruit-size (4.5 inches in diameter) hail.
Sunday’s biggest hailstones fell in Afton, Texas — about 70 miles east-northeast of Lubbock. The storm chasers who found them estimated they weighed nearly a pound and a half each.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/05/30/hail-texas-thunderstorms-lubbock/
Cantaloupe-size hail can't be good...some might just say the Almighty is sending a message to Texas...
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Just a SWAG, but...
1.5 lbs mass
28.27 in2 cross section
Default drag coefficient and air density
1 g gravity
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147.8752 ft/s (100.8252 mph)
https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/terminal-velocity-calculator.php
I'd really hate for something like that to happen to them.
Mine is 24 gauge and hail, wind and fire resistant. I just had 2 vehicles totaled by hail last week yet my roof still looks fine. As to cell reception I have no issues there, but I have a ton of windows in my home. Many of the windows are covered by a wraparound porch (ranch style), which means there's metal roofing above them. It's also pretty and in a color which matches the trim and doors of my home. It looks nice.
Just as a FYI if you're interested.
