Published November 20th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
Hail Storm
After a very hot day yesterday (top temperature of 37.9 deg C), the area of Adelaide that I live in got a pretty impressive hail storm late yesterday afternoon. I’d been working at home, and I heard the dogs start barking, then the rumble of the thunder. Of course, I went outside to have a look because I like watching storms.
The cloud formations were like nothing I’ve ever seen before, so after watching them for about a minute I decided to go back inside and get the digicam to get some photos.
When I got back outside, I took a few cloud photos, and I could hear this continous rumble, like thunder, or a heavy wind in the trees, but it just didn’t stop. After a couple of minutes the rumble seemed to get closer.
By the time it was about a street away I realised it was hail, and figured I’d better get under the verandah just in case. A few seconds later we had chunks of ice raining down on us.
Well, the hail was being blown in at an angle, and was landing about a metre in from the edge of the concrete, then bouncing once before it hit our back windows (which are “protected” but a verandah about 3-4 metres deep).
As you can see in the photos, some of the hail stones were the size of 20c pieces (an Ausiie 20c piece is about an inch across for anyone reading this who doesn’t know)! Afterwards it looked like we’d had snow on the lawn. Now, the roads around here are covered in leaves, gum nuts and crap which was litterally “stonned” out of the trees.
I’ve never seen anything like it, like I said, it was very impressive.
paul Says
was there any roof damage and what city got hit by the hail
Dec 17th, 2003 at 6:42 pm
Jim O'Halloran Says
Only very minor damage to my car (nothing worth worrying about). The storm hit a very small area in the southern suburbs Adelaide.
Jim.
Dec 18th, 2003 at 2:44 pm
andrea Says
that was awesome!!! i have never seen anything like that
Mar 25th, 2004 at 11:46 am
andrea Says
I have never seen anything like that in my life!1 I live in Va and we dont have hail storms like that around where i live! it was very interesting to see something like that and especially something that came from the sky that big!
Mar 25th, 2004 at 11:50 am
andrea Says
I have never seen anything like that in my life!1 I live in Va and we dont have hail storms like that around where i live! it was very interesting to see something like that and especially something that came from the sky that big!
Mar 25th, 2004 at 11:50 am
someone Says
no info wat so ever!
Mar 26th, 2004 at 2:46 pm
jeremy Says
awsome i have good video
Apr 22nd, 2004 at 11:18 am
simon Says
I saw the storms on that day and saw some awsome bolts of lightning but no hail.
Do you remember the storm of 1991?I saw hail then that was the size of golf balls.It is an awsome sight!
May 1st, 2004 at 4:09 pm
yordan Says
I have never seen anything like that in my life!!!!!!!!
May 18th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Derek Sandstrom Says
Jim,
May I please borrow your pic of the storm clouds? I would like to use it for a powerpoint show I’m working on.
Thanks,
Derek
Mar 31st, 2008 at 8:03 am