4.83 inches, beating the previous record of 4.5 inches.
It fell northwest of Bethune on Tuesday.
www.denverpost.com
UPDATE: NWS and state of Colorado announcements about it:
(Apologies: the forum software automatically converted SOME, but not ALL, of the links to embedded posts. I can't embed all of them in one post, so make sure to check all links)
Gotta love the comment in the re-tweeted tweet about "given how the radar looked...". Clearly a failure of understanding of Mie scattering theory.
Here's another phat stone that appears never to have been considered:
https://twitter.com/NWSGoodland/status/1161426976403382278
And another interesting side to this story:
https://twitter.com/ColoradoClimate/status/1161815830461444096
It fell northwest of Bethune on Tuesday.

It’s official: Colorado has a new largest hailstone on record
A minimum 4.83 inch diameter hailstone was measured with from a storm in Bethune on Tuesday, making that the largest hail in state history.

UPDATE: NWS and state of Colorado announcements about it:
(Apologies: the forum software automatically converted SOME, but not ALL, of the links to embedded posts. I can't embed all of them in one post, so make sure to check all links)
Gotta love the comment in the re-tweeted tweet about "given how the radar looked...". Clearly a failure of understanding of Mie scattering theory.
Here's another phat stone that appears never to have been considered:
https://twitter.com/NWSGoodland/status/1161426976403382278
And another interesting side to this story:
https://twitter.com/ColoradoClimate/status/1161815830461444096
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