A severe, heavy-precipitation supercell, of the type storm chasers and spotters often nickname an “HP Hail Machine“, dumped a large quantity of significant severe hail west and south of Faith, SD. From north of Faith, I went south of town and chose that viewing perspective, since the storm already was closing in on the west option. After it passed off into a relative road void, I broke off to intercept other storms brewing to the southwest, but not before returning back north to see how big the fallen hail was. This was taken about 15 minutes after the hail landed in roadside grass. The hailstone at center was the largest reported in the U.S. that fine late-spring day. The hail also varied a good deal in opacity and shape, some being hard and essentially spherical like the specimen at left, others very asymmetrically spiky or knobby, indicating some wildly gyrating tumbling action in the supercooled accretion area aloft.
7 S Faith SD (4 Jun 20) Looking down
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