00:02Well you've probably seen the videos of this monster size hail out of Illinois from earlier
00:07this week. Six inches, that's how big some of those stones were. Bigger than golf balls,
00:13baseballs, and softballs. Noah's hail chart usually tops out around grapefruit size. That's
00:19about four and a half inches in diameter, but this storm blew right past that scale.
00:23So what does six inch diameter hail actually compare to? Let me show you. A cereal bowl.
00:30A coffee can lid. A roll of duct tape. A smoke detector. And the wildest comparison? A small
00:37melon. At that size, it's estimated that hail can fall at speeds over 100 miles per hour,
00:43strong enough to shatter windshields and punch through roofs in seconds. When hail gets so
00:47big it outgrows the official scale, that's not just extreme, that's historic.
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