Hail Storm of July 7

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Hail Storm of July 7

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Hail Storm of July 7, 2003

    A thunderstorm struck the Department of Atmospheric Science on the afternoon of July 7, 2003. A line of storms moved off the Foothills to the west, dropping small hail and heavy rain from approximately 4:35 - 4:50 pm. The hail came thickly for a time, mostly pea size or smaller. After the pace slackened for a couple minutes, the size increased to the size of small marbles. The hail was moderately soft, but some stones bounced several feet into the air off of the asphalt roof of ATMOS. 

    Click here for a gallery of pictures from my wimpy 1.3 Mega pixel camera. Of particular interest is the lowered cloud base to the south and the mammatus clouds to the northeast. On the radar, the lowered cloud base appeared to be to be an isolated cell on the southern end of the line, but it seemed to die out as it moved near Greeley (as other storms strengthened). 

     And if you have lots of bandwidth, you can check out this video clip of falling hail (Windows Media Player format: 2.55 Mb -- if you have a modem, it's not worth the wait).

 

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