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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.
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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
The National Weather Service warned that wind speeds of 70 mph are capable of causing structural damage to mobile homes, outbuildings, and rooftops, while the large hailstones could easily shatter windows and dent vehicles.
—Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Those pulses bounce off raindrops, snowflakes, hailstones—what meteorologists collectively call hydrometeors—and back to the dish antenna.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 30 May 2025
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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
The National Weather Service warned that wind speeds of 70 mph are capable of causing structural damage to mobile homes, outbuildings, and rooftops, while the large hailstones could easily shatter windows and dent vehicles.
—Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Those pulses bounce off raindrops, snowflakes, hailstones—what meteorologists collectively call hydrometeors—and back to the dish antenna.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 30 May 2025
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“Hailstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hailstone. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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hailstone
noun
hail·stone
ˈhā(ə)l-ˌstōn 
: a small lump of hail
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