beaudodson
EF5
Hello
We had a large hail event last winter that produced very large hail. The problem was that the hail was spiked. I was hoping I could find photos of it, but so far I have not been able to pull them up.
I was taught that you measure hail from spike to spike. Is this correct? Can someone show where the NWS considers that the correct way to measure hail?
There has been some discussion on Storm Track about the ideal way of measuring hail. In an ideal world you would measure it be size and weight. Spikes don't always add that much weight to the stone.
Nevertheless, that isn't the way it works (at least today).
What is the official way of measuring hail.
If a stone is half dollar in size (core) but has two inch spikes all the way around, then how do you measure that stone.
Attached is a photo from the Goodland, NWS from earlier today
![2017-08-10_15-05-38.png 2017-08-10_15-05-38.png](https://stormtrack.org/data/attachments/18/18056-c294872d9b65ee510896068fdf149be5.jpg)
We had a large hail event last winter that produced very large hail. The problem was that the hail was spiked. I was hoping I could find photos of it, but so far I have not been able to pull them up.
I was taught that you measure hail from spike to spike. Is this correct? Can someone show where the NWS considers that the correct way to measure hail?
There has been some discussion on Storm Track about the ideal way of measuring hail. In an ideal world you would measure it be size and weight. Spikes don't always add that much weight to the stone.
Nevertheless, that isn't the way it works (at least today).
What is the official way of measuring hail.
If a stone is half dollar in size (core) but has two inch spikes all the way around, then how do you measure that stone.
Attached is a photo from the Goodland, NWS from earlier today
![2017-08-10_15-05-38.png 2017-08-10_15-05-38.png](https://stormtrack.org/data/attachments/18/18056-c294872d9b65ee510896068fdf149be5.jpg)