Baseball-sized hail produced by severe storms in Mississippi

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Storm chaser Dr. Reed Timmer was in Falkner, Mississippi, where he reported baseball-sized hail dropped south of Hernando during severe weather on Dec. 9. Tornado warnings were also issued.

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00:00 In northern Mississippi, a line of severe storms continues to consolidate along the cold frontal zone.

00:05 There you can see the cold front that is undercutting this severe storm near Faulkner, Mississippi, just to the south of the Tennessee border.

00:12 Still a bunch of tornado warnings active in central Tennessee where there's some stronger low-level winds here.

00:17 Further south, we've had a couple of tornado warnings in northern Mississippi too,

00:20 but thankfully the low-level winds are a little bit weaker this far south,

00:24 so we haven't had as much in the way of long-lived tornadic activity.

00:28 But we have had a lot of hail and very large hail at that here across the Mid-South,

00:33 some of the largest hail I've ever seen across this region of Mississippi.

00:37 Earlier in the day, this storm produced baseball-sized hail to the south of Hernando in Mississippi.

00:42 That's just to the south of Memphis, and usually that area has a lot less in the way of hail, maybe small hail.

00:48 Sometimes the storms don't even have hail at all because of how warm the profiles are.

00:53 But as here late fall, there's a lot of cold air aloft, especially with a very potent trough that's ejecting right now

01:00 with minus 30 degrees Celsius temperatures aloft.

01:02 Even though it is a little bit stretched out from southwest to northeast, there's a lot of strong wind shear out ahead of this storm system.

01:09 And as we're getting closer to sunset, look at these mammoths beginning to develop,

01:13 and we're starting to see the low-level jet or that channel of wind just above the ground

01:17 that causes these storms to rotate at low levels is starting to increase.

01:21 And so we might be approaching what's called the magic hour,

01:24 where some of these storms could even see a little bit of an uptick in the tornado potential.

01:28 But as they congeal into a line of storms, they'll start racing off to the east

01:32 and eventually arrive in the southeastern U.S. tomorrow.

01:34 Portions of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina could see a skinny squall line

01:39 capable of producing embedded tornadoes and certainly damaging winds as this storm continues to intensify.

01:44 (roaring)

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