Baseball Sized Hail!
By DE
@DaddyEvil (174528)
United States
April 28, 2026 11:56am CST
I was looking for a shirt to wear in my bedroom closet when I heard a bullet strike the roof right above my head. I jumped and shouted! Pretty came running into my bedroom asking if I was hurt... Then we heard hail striking the storm windows in both bedrooms. I'd heard the first hailstone hitting the roof above my head!
We both headed to the front door and saw baseball sized hailstones landing in the street, in the yard and shattering on the front porch when they landed. I made Pretty wait until it sounded like nothing else was coming down around us and then let her go grab one from the yard and take pictures of it.
Right after she stepped back into the house, hail started falling again only this time it was only marble sized hail. The whole yard turned white from all the ice covering the grass.
Image belongs to me. Hailstone the size of Pretty's palm.
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31 responses
@AmbiePam (120868)
• United States
28 Apr
@TheHorse A few years ago we got it and it totaled all our cars. I felt terrible for the people in my complex who had liability only. One lady had this red car that was just gorgeous. Her brother had given it to her. Unfortunately, she had liability only, and it just crushed her.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
28 Apr
I know. One of the largest we've seen in a couple of years. 
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@lovebuglena (52174)
• Staten Island, New York
28 Apr
@DaddyEvil it can probably break a window…
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
28 Apr
@lovebuglena Yup! We checked all the windows in the house and car and none of them were damaged this time. We just got the storm window in my bedroom replaced after the last hail storm broke the window out.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
29 Apr
@DaddyEvil That could do some damage and definitely hurt if it hit a human or animal.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
I agree, that is the largest hail we've seen in several years.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
30 Apr
@Tampa_girl7 True. That's why I wouldn't let Pretty go out until after we couldn't hear hail anymore. She doesn't need to be hurt. I need her help in the house.
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@wolfgirl569 (135819)
• Marion, Ohio
28 Apr
That is huge. Hope nothing was damaged
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
We've got several limbs down in the back yard but none of the windows were broken that we can see.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
This is the photo Pretty took right after the large hail stopped falling.
I'm drawing a blank on how to send it from my phone to my email so I can add it here. My phone won't open myLot. Normally I just send photos to my email address but I can't remember how to do that again. This is aggravating! Sorry. When I remember how, I'll show you the photo.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
We get hail like that once every few years. We get hail with some larger storms but it's usually only the size of a large marble.
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@toniganzon (77209)
• Philippines
29 Apr
That's really huge. Imagine if you were outside and it fell on your head!
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
I KNOW! No more person if you got hit in the head from something that large!
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
Thank you. We can't see the garage windows from in the house and I wouldn't let Pretty go back outside after the second round of hail started falling. We don't know if anything is broken out there.
@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
29 Apr
@DaddyEvil - She needs to tell the construction guys to check the roofs. When we had hail like that years ago, some of the tiles of our roof had to be replaced.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
@LadyDuck Our roof is older so we could have damaged shingles. They're made from thick tar and paper in the US so break fairly easily. We'll tell her.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
Thank you. We'll let the landlady know about the hail. (She doesn't live close to us so might not have gotten any of this hail. She'll need to tell her construction guys to check our roof and the roofs of her other tenants here for damages.)
We lost some large tree limbs in the back yard but everything seems fine now. Thank you.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
15 May
I'm glad we don't normally get hail that large! Most of the time the hail is about as big as my thumb.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
16 May
@rakski I would let people in here if it started hailing and caught them outside with no place else to go.
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@rakski (156506)
• Philippines
16 May
@DaddyEvil
I experienced that but it's the size of a pingpong ball when I was up north in a province. We were walking and took shelter to a nearby house
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
Marble sized hail is what we normally get with a nasty storm and it usually only lasts a minute. The large hail fell for several minutes, stopped and Pretty ran out and grabbed one and ran back into the house and then the marble sized hail started falling. It lasted several more minutes.
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@Traceyjayne (11397)
• United Kingdom
28 Apr
Oh my days ….never seen anything like that my life!
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
You should have been here and watched it falling from the sky! We stood in the doorway and watched it fall!
@Shivram59 (50254)
• India
1 May
Is it the hailstone in the pic?? It's too in big. Here in my area they are like pellets and their shape is round. Anybody can get hurt if hit by them.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
1 May
Yes, that's one of the hailstones that fell here. Usually they're only the size of marbles, not baseballs.
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@Shivram59 (50254)
• India
1 May
@DaddyEvil It is big enough to hurt anybody if it falls on their head.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
No, we get hail with storms several times year. Hail that large only happens once every few years.
@rebelann (117244)
• El Paso, Texas
30 Apr
It's been years since I've seen one and the hail itself couldn't have been more than the size of a marble but the force of the wind caused that hail to break a lot of windows and rooftops around here @DaddyEvil
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
30 Apr
Some storms bring hail with them but it's rarely that large. Maybe once a year or every two years we'll see hail like that. Usually, it's small marble sized and we just hear a light tapping on the windows when it's falling.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
30 Apr
@rebelann This hail looked like it was falling straight down at us. You should have seen some of it shatter when it hit the ground. It looked like a small bomb going off!
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@garymarsh6 (24025)
• United Kingdom
7 Jun
Blimey that could cause some serious damage if that had hit you or her!
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
7 Jun
We get hail a lot but it normally isn't that large. It hailed yesterday before it started storming.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
7 Jun
@garymarsh6 That was very nice of you. People don't usually walk down the streets here. There are no sidewalks so they'd have to walk in the street or in the yards.
@garymarsh6 (24025)
• United Kingdom
7 Jun
@DaddyEvil we had hail the other day we told passing people to take cover in our porch until it stopped.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
29 Apr
OMG. Hope nothing in your house got damaged.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
30 Apr
Thank you. Nothing was damaged this time but last year we got hail when a tornado was going through and that hail hit so hard it shattered one of my bedroom windows. It took several months before the insurance paid somebody to come and replace the window. The insurance people told me to tape some heavy plastic over the window until they could get to me. I guess a lot of houses had lost windows to that hail.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
2 May
@aninditasen True but we don't get hailstorms very often. Plastic can keep rain out, though.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
2 May
@DaddyEvil That was really something very painful. You might have stayed in fear until the window was repaired. Plastic cannot prevent a storm.
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it can easily harm you if you were outside.@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
5 May
@nela13 True. They were standing outside instead of going into their shelters.
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
5 May
@DaddyEvil poor animals, it breaks my heart when bad things happens to animals.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
2 May
Pretty saved that one in the freezer in case you ever come to visit us. 
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
Sometime we have walnuts fall on the roof that sound almost that loud.
We don't get hail that size very often. Once every few years, maybe.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
29 Apr
@Jehanne It's rare the small sized hail can cause damage but it might break small limbs off trees in the back year, which means we have to go out and clean them up before we can mow the yard.
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@Jehanne (2006)
• Philippines
29 Apr
@DaddyEvil then followed by a series of rapid beats.
But even a small sized is still loud and it can cause damage?
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