Have you ever seen hail as big as a softball?
364791
I have only seen it on TV. Yikes, pretty scary. You are right about that tribulation, those are going to be some tough times. Glad I don't have to worry about that.
1109065
"From what I've found, the heaviest hailstone ever documented from across the globe weighed in at about 2.2 pounds. In fact, multiple hailstones this size fell over a part of Bangladesh, India on April, 14th 1986. The hail storm reportedly killed over 90 people. "\n(http://www.geocities.com/pleiades61/hailstones.html)
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Yes, it does. For one thing, I've seen it hit the ocean and cause a scatter/ripple effect in the water. It was actually very cool.\n\nSecondly, why do you think people always tell you to get out of the water when there is a lightening storm overhead?
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It is possible but it is quite rare. Here's why.\n\nA thunderstorm depends on rapidly rising  moist warm  air to produce the effects we see. These effects are: large volumes of rain in a short period of time, strongly gusting winds, hail, and of course lightning. When conditions aren't right (surface air is too cool and dry) it is impossible for air at the surface to rise fast and high enough to create a thunderstorm cell. Basically in winter the air is not warm or moist enough to produce thunderstorm cells.\n\nFor a deeper explanation check the source site.
430419
Have you ever looked at the sky and seen a shooting star?\n\nThese are meteors burning up as the enter the atmosphere.  Is this what you are talking about?
334125
I'm not quite sure of the question, but, In JV softball I got a high of 6 strikeouts pitching for half the game.  That was the best thing I can remember from way back then.
502971
i believe if you take two two liter pepsi bottles and fill one with water and tape the openings together so it looks like a giant egg timer when you turn one bottle upside down and swirl it a little it will cause a tornado effect.
947663
Like a tornado funnel in a rainbow of colors..
277907
I saw one about 10 feet over my house, so yes
657105
Ever heard of May 3rd? The F5 tornado that damaged much of Oklahoma was the most awesome and yet most frightening storm I have ever seen.  Total devastation as far as you could see.
194439
The Hallam Nebraska F4 tornado of May 22, 2004 was the biggest on record.\n\nhttp://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/\n\nhttp://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/hallamap.jpg
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Increase.  I have seen a tornado up close, like right over head.  It brought in two different winds and they ran around in a circle.  The faster they blew, the stronger the storm.  A hurricane is like a great big whirlwind.  A large amount of the damage attributed to a hurricane is often done by the tornadoes it creates by the unstable air on its edges.  Best advice...Stay out of their way.
365865
Hail forms high in the atmosphere where temperatures are much lower that they are on the ground.
1128213
A tornado is not just wind, the fact that you can see them is either a if it drags condensation down witth them when they form (condensation funnel), or stir up dust and debris when they contact the ground. These "clouds" are actually rapidly spinning vortices (if you dont know it, look it up), that can produce winds in excess of 300 mph on the Fujita Scale (Ditto), and the stuff they can pick up and carry with them..... well, I think that about covers it.
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Yes, I was running accross the street in a pouring rain. When a black car came out from behind a stationary object. They were about 30 feet away going 35 mph (that's what they told the police since that was the speed limit). I was right in front of the driver when I tried to stop and he tried to pull over to the curb as much as he could. As the car got closer, I thought about a lot of things. I was in my first year of marriage, my wife was 5 months pregnant. I finally just surrendered to the Lord's will. The car hit me with the front fender in my right leg. I flipped up in the air and landed in a 3-point stance, facing almost the opposite direction.\nNot only did I suirvive, but my leg wasn't broken either. It truly was the hand of God.Oh yes, by the time I landed, it had stopped raining! Now all of this happened in a fraction of a second!
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Hail forms on condensation nuclei such as dust, bugs, or ice crystals, when supercooled water freezes on contact. In clouds containing large numbers of supercooled water droplets, these ice nuclei grow quickly at the expense of the liquid droplets because the saturation vapor pressure over ice is slightly less than the saturation vapor pressure over water. If the hail stones grow large enough, latent heat released by further freezing may melt the outer shell of the hail stone. The growth that follows, usually called wet growth, is more efficient because the liquid outer shell allows the stone to accrete other smaller hail stones in addition to supercooled droplets. Once a hailstone becomes too heavy to be supported by the storm's updraft it falls out of the cloud. The reason rain can't fall, is typically because of the strong winds inside a thunderstorm cloud. These winds hold the rain and freeze it. As the process repeats, the hail grows increasingly larger. When a hail stone is cut in half, a series of concentric rings, like that of an onion, are revealed. From these rings we can determine the total number of times the hail stone had traveled to the top of the storm before falling to the ground.\n\nEven though temperatures at this height are below freezing, most of the cloud's moisture is super cooled. This means it remains liquid because it lacks a surface on which to freeze. As soon as a super cooled droplet collides with potential nuclei—ice crystals, frozen raindrops, dust, or salt it freezes quickly.
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YES!  When I was about 12 years old.  My whole family saw it.  We were all outside and it came from across the road, flew up our driveway and hovered off to the side of our house.  My Mom was screaming because it was going so fast she thought it was going to crash into our house.  It was level with our roof, so it was pretty low to the ground.  It was so bright it was blinding and made absolutely no sound.  We were scared to death.  It just stayed there for a minute and then shot up in the air and disappeared.  We called the police and they even came out to the scene but didnt really perform an investigation. They did say there were several other reports the same night.  One of the weirdest things that has ever happened to me.  I dont care if people believe me or not, I know what I saw and so did my family, it was NOT an airplane or helicopter.