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Researchers are chasing storms across multiple states to collect and study hailstones to better understand storm behavior.
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Seth Borenstein, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
Passenger aircraft are not designed to absorb large hailstone impacts without damage, Airbus said in its Safety First magazine.
—Jenny Gross, New York Times, 22 May 2025
The National Weather Service (NWS) has warned of a potential severe weather outbreak across the Southern Plains, with the possibility of several tornadoes, destructive wind gusts reaching 80 to 100 mph, and giant hailstones up to 5 inches in diameter—about the size of a pineapple.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 June 2025
Those clouds are made up of particles including raindrops, ice crystals and soft hailstones known as graupel.
—Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
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Seth Borenstein, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
Passenger aircraft are not designed to absorb large hailstone impacts without damage, Airbus said in its Safety First magazine.
—Jenny Gross, New York Times, 22 May 2025
The National Weather Service (NWS) has warned of a potential severe weather outbreak across the Southern Plains, with the possibility of several tornadoes, destructive wind gusts reaching 80 to 100 mph, and giant hailstones up to 5 inches in diameter—about the size of a pineapple.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 June 2025
Those clouds are made up of particles including raindrops, ice crystals and soft hailstones known as graupel.
—Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
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“Hailstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hailstone. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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hailstone
noun
hail·stone
ˈhā(ə)l-ˌstōn 
: a small lump of hail
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