An assortment of hailstone sizes and shapes, as well as internal structures, could be gathered quickly from adjoining grass, immediately following the passage of a rain-wrapped, embedded supercell at this location. Unlike the pavement upon which the hail sits, the grass insulated the hail to some extent, slowing the melting process. Concentric rings of different opacities reveal growth layers as spinning hailstones tumbled through swaths of supercooled raindrops, gathering instantaneously freezing outer layers one after another.
3 SE Orlando OK (15 May 89) Looking down
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