Gargantuan hail is something you likely have never heard of. This type of description for hail is reserved for only the biggest stones. Severe warnings for hail start at a quarter-sized hail, and ...

Baseball-sized hail, around 2.75 inches, was reported near Parkville, Platte Woods and Kansas City North. Other areas that ...

How does hail form? First, we need a thunderstorm to develop. As it strengthens, the updraft or vertical wind becomes faster. Water droplets are swept up by the updraft high into the storm, above the ...

Up to 4-inch hail fell in the Kansas City metro on the evening of Tuesday, March 10.

As severe storms pummeled the Chicago area on Tuesday evening, they delivered plenty of rain and damaging winds but also a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As an atmospheric scientist, I study and teach about extreme weather and its risks. Here’s how hail forms, how hailstorms may be ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Golf ball-sized hail and widespread flash flooding hit the Grand Rapids area Tuesday night, damaging homes ...

A line of severe thunderstorms tore across northern Illinois on March 10, 2026, producing hailstones reportedly as large as 6 ...

During severe thunderstorms, rising air shoots icy pellets the size of Dippin’ Dots ice cream into the bitter cold of upper atmospheric layers. There, supercooled water freezes onto the small ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Hail size is important for categorizing how much damage a particular thunderstorm can do. Thankfully, the smaller the hail, the more common it is and the larger the size, the ...

A tornado watch is now in effect for far southwest Michigan. A severe thunderstorm watch is also in effect from Iowa to part ...

(EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.) — Many parts of Colorado saw severe weather on Sunday, July 6, with large hail falling in many areas in El Paso County. On Sunday afternoon, parts of Monument, Black Forest, ...