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Recent Examples of hailstorm
Looking over 6,000 acres of prairie, the 45,000-square-foot visitor center would undergo a $7 million renovation after sustaining severe damage from a hailstorm in 2024.
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Kate Kealey,
Des Moines Register,
31 Mar. 2026
Central Texas hailstorm brings baseball-sized hail Supercell thunderstorms frequently cause severe hailstorms that produce large, damaging hail due to their powerful, rotating updrafts.
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Marley Malenfant,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Mar. 2026
The hailstorm devastated Dora’s Nursery, a garden center on the south side of town.
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Anthony Franze,
San Antonio Express-News,
11 Mar. 2026
The creation became the center of a Hollywood hailstorm in late 2025 after Van der Velden suggested on a panel in Zurich that she was set to sign with an agency.
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Eline Van Der Velden,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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Kate Kealey,
Des Moines Register,
31 Mar. 2026
Central Texas hailstorm brings baseball-sized hail Supercell thunderstorms frequently cause severe hailstorms that produce large, damaging hail due to their powerful, rotating updrafts.
—
Marley Malenfant,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Mar. 2026
The hailstorm devastated Dora’s Nursery, a garden center on the south side of town.
—
Anthony Franze,
San Antonio Express-News,
11 Mar. 2026
The creation became the center of a Hollywood hailstorm in late 2025 after Van der Velden suggested on a panel in Zurich that she was set to sign with an agency.
—
Eline Van Der Velden,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hailstorm
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.
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Forecasters warned that a thunderstorm could bring wind gusts of between 40 and 50 mph, National Weather Service Senior Meteorologist Chuck Caracozza said.
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Multiple homeowners and renters along Bear Creek in Kitteridge woke up to the sight of mud and destruction, following an overnight rainstorm that flooded parts of the town.
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That means the next rainstorm will likely trigger landslides, so Venezuela can expect more damage, more hazards and perhaps more deaths.
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Forecasters expect a strong windstorm beginning Friday in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.
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Bass accused Crowley of leadership failures during the January 2025 windstorm that led to the deadly Palisades fire, and also accused her of refusing to prepare an after-action report on the firefight.
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Thousands of Big Bear residents were forced to endure a series of power safety shutoffs on Friday due to a high risk of wildfires in the area caused by warm weather and strong winds.
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Doyle Rice is a national correspondent for USA TODAY, with a focus on weather and climate.
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The storm, which hit the New York area in October, 2012, unlocked billions of dollars in resilience spending, with hurricanes, rather than heat waves or cloudbursts, as the focus.
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The whole experience tasted of the sea and the end of summer, punctuated by soft little cloudbursts on the palate.
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During a 1986 return trip from India, John Paul’s plane was forced to land in Naples because of a snowstorm in Rome.
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He was found injured in front of a Canton home in early hours January 29, 2022 during a snowstorm and was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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The Bay Area was handed, unquestionably, the worst slate of group-stage games FIFA’s bureaucrats could manifest — five equivalents of a Tuesday night MACtion football game in a November blizzard.
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The air in the bedroom instantly became a blizzard of trash.
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In a sudden forecast turnabout, metro Detroit went from April thundershowers and tornado warnings one day to a warm, sunny day the next, with temperatures in the upcoming week expected to reach the 70s.
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Speaking under dark clouds minutes after a thundershower drenched onlookers, Ms. Truss leaned on the weather as a metaphor for the economic challenges facing Britain.
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“Hailstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hailstorm. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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