Terry Tyler
EF5
there were some pretty intense cells that moved through the area today...particularly one storm that was severe, and not warned...
i was at my house watching em come in on the radar, and asking my mom about em at her job in skyline...well, there was some exceptional conditions out there for some hail, but no instability, so the stones weren't that large...
one cell came right through east tupelo on highway 6 and main street with some serious flooding...my mother doesn't have windows in her car, and she got soaked into her socks right as it was leaving town and told me that the power was off at palmers, savalot, DG and everything right there including the stoplights...
at this time, i had my friend call me on the phone in eggville that it was hailing like crazy...they took pictures on their phones, and i told em to put some samples in the freezer...well, i just come back from their house, and the hail stones are flat, and they are definitely all penny to nickel size...
my friend has a pic on his phone and im gonna try to see if he cant get it uploaded to me somehow so i can put it here...if i get it, i will post it here...the hail had stripped leaves, and i don't know if this is true or not, but i saw it with my own eyes...
i don't know if they were playing with me, or what...but there was a 12oz bud light bottle that was in the yard, and a stone broke the bottle just above the neck...they left it right were it sat so i could see it, and it was barely cracked and you could see a small hole in the bottle and it all fit together in only 3 pieces...so i assume its possible, but it would have had to be a pretty large stone so i cant confirm that, but what i can confirm is the samples they had were definatly penny to nickel size, with some a little bit larger...
i was at my house watching em come in on the radar, and asking my mom about em at her job in skyline...well, there was some exceptional conditions out there for some hail, but no instability, so the stones weren't that large...
one cell came right through east tupelo on highway 6 and main street with some serious flooding...my mother doesn't have windows in her car, and she got soaked into her socks right as it was leaving town and told me that the power was off at palmers, savalot, DG and everything right there including the stoplights...
at this time, i had my friend call me on the phone in eggville that it was hailing like crazy...they took pictures on their phones, and i told em to put some samples in the freezer...well, i just come back from their house, and the hail stones are flat, and they are definitely all penny to nickel size...
my friend has a pic on his phone and im gonna try to see if he cant get it uploaded to me somehow so i can put it here...if i get it, i will post it here...the hail had stripped leaves, and i don't know if this is true or not, but i saw it with my own eyes...
i don't know if they were playing with me, or what...but there was a 12oz bud light bottle that was in the yard, and a stone broke the bottle just above the neck...they left it right were it sat so i could see it, and it was barely cracked and you could see a small hole in the bottle and it all fit together in only 3 pieces...so i assume its possible, but it would have had to be a pretty large stone so i cant confirm that, but what i can confirm is the samples they had were definatly penny to nickel size, with some a little bit larger...
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