Baseball Sized Hail!
By DE
@DaddyEvil (173009)
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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18 responses
@AmbiePam (118370)
• United States
15h
@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 (173009)
• United States
18h
I know. One of the largest we've seen in a couple of years. 
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
18h
@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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@lovebuglena (51488)
• Staten Island, New York
18h
@DaddyEvil it can probably break a window…
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
10h
I agree, that is the largest hail we've seen in several years.
@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
10h
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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@LooeyVille (60)
• United States
18h
Oh my goodness! That could cause a lot of damage.
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
18h
We can see a dent in the hood of my old car and the new neighbors both have new vehicles parked outside. I hope they didn't get any big dents, too.
We checked and can't see any windows in the car or the house that are broken this time. We just got the broken storm window in my bedroom fixed from the last hail storm we had.
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
11h
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 (76845)
• Philippines
12h
That's really huge. Imagine if you were outside and it fell on your head!
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
11h
I KNOW! No more person if you got hit in the head from something that large!
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
11h
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 (499719)
• Italy
3h
@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 (173009)
• United States
2h
@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 (173009)
• United States
3h
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 (173009)
• United States
11h
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 (173009)
• United States
11h
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 (10366)
• United Kingdom
14h
Oh my days ….never seen anything like that my life!
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
11h
You should have been here and watched it falling from the sky! We stood in the doorway and watched it fall!
@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
11h
No, we get hail with storms several times year. Hail that large only happens once every few years.
@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
8h
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 (173009)
• United States
2h
@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.
@Jehanne (1131)
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2h
@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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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
3h
We were really surprised seeing large hail falling from the sky. I haven't seen anything on our local news about anyone being hurt by it. We do have some large limbs on the ground after the hailstorm went through, though. We'll have to wait for a nice day to clean the mess up back there.
@luisadannointed (10909)
• Philippines
3h
Umbrealla will not save you from getting hit by it? That's so big, I don't think its ssafe to go out. Stay safe both of you. God bless. How's your MRI?
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
2h
Maybe if the hail is small. But hail is solid chunks of ice falling from the sky. The hail might go right through an umbrella if the hail is large enough.
Thank you, we stay in the house, no matter how small the hail is. even if it doesn't hit your head, it can really hurt and leave big bruises when it hits you.
The MRI came out showing the same problems the x-ray showed. I'm waiting for the specialist to have time to see me now.
@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
9h
Yeah, we can see one dent on the hood from the hail. We can't see the rest of the car from inside the house. Pretty stepped out far enough to make sure the windows on the far side of the car weren't broken. We also checked all the windows in the house and they were fine.
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@LindaOHio (219953)
• United States
1h
Wow! Hail that size could really hurt someone.
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@DaddyEvil (173009)
• United States
1h
I agree and that's why I made Pretty wait until we couldn't hear hail anymore before letting her go grab one.
