Cantaloupe-size hail keeps bombarding Texas [View all]

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...