Dramatic Satellite Video Follows Along as Supercell Thunderstorms Dump Softball-Sized Hail

The storms boiled up on the Mexico-Texas border and pelted more than 10,000 square miles with hail.

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By Tom Yulsman
Apr 29, 2021 11:00 PMMay 3, 2021 6:07 PM
Satellite Image of Severe Thunderstorms Over Texas
A massive thunderstorm system boiling up over Texas starting on April 28, 2021 and continuing on the 29th. The image consists of weather satellite data from the visible and infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. See below for an animation of the storm as it grew and moved to the northeast. (Credit: RAMMB/CIRA)

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As supercell thunderstorms boiled up in a bubbling atmospheric cauldron over Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, they began dumping damaging hailstones as large as softballs across a vast area.

The chumks of ice damaged cars, homes and other structures, and caused at least one injury when a stone smashed into a person's head in Oklahoma.

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