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Hail up to baseball size and a confirmed tornado were reported in some parts of North Texas as the region was under a severe thunderstorm watch Thursday night.. The largest hailstones, ranging ...
Baseball-size hail hits Texas as 200,000 across the South remain without power. Patrick Smith and Kathryn Prociv. ... Georgia and North Carolina each had about 17,000 power outages.
One person is dead after destructive storms brought baseball-sized hail to Texas.. A severe thunderstorm brought hurricane-force winds and damaging hail to the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth ...
A subsequent storm 2 days later brought in another round of hailstorm with high winds causing additional damage to the city. The cost of these events reached $552 million. [31] 12 April 2016 San Antonio, Texas, US A storm producing hail up to the size of grapefruits pummeled the city causing extensive damage to cars, homes, windows, and roofs.
The Insurance Council of Texas assessed that insured losses inflicted by the storm amounted to $1.1 billion. [7] Hail sizes associated with the storm ranged between 1.75–4.5 in (4.5–11.5 cm), [2] and at one point the hail covered a region over 3 mi (5 km) wide. [5]
A Blue Norther, also known as a Texas Norther, is a fast moving cold front marked by a rapid drop in temperature, strong winds, and dark blue or "black" skies. The cold front originates from the north, hence the "norther", and can send temperatures plummeting by 20 or 30 degrees in merely minutes.
A storm system continuing on its trek across the nation has brought a renewed threat of flooding rain and severe weather later Thursday that has communities in the Ark-La-Tex region on alert.
The Texas Severe Storms Association (TESSA) is a national non-profit organization founded in 1993 by storm chaser and TESSA chairman Martin Lisius.The organization’s mission is to bring together both professional meteorologists and weather enthusiasts in an attempt to better understand dangerous storms through the collection and diffusion of knowledge.