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Hail The largest hailstone in terms of diameter and weight ever recorded in the United States fell on July 23, 2010 in Vivian, South Dakota; it measured 8 inches (20 cm) in diameter and 18.62 inches (47.3 cm) in circumference, weighing in at 1.93 pounds (0.88 kg).
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The biggest storm in our solar system: Jupiterâs mysterious red spot glows white in stunning new infrared image - and is twice as big as EARTH The biggest storm in our solar system: Jupiter’s mysterious red spot glows white in stunning new infrared image - and is twice as big as EARTH. Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ has been turned white in a stunning new infrared image of our solar system’s largest storm. The Jovian storm is believed to have a lifetime of 300 to 400 years and has winds screaming at hundreds of miles per hour.
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World's Largest Round Pizza Is 131-Feet, Over 25 Tons World's Largest Round Pizza Is 131-Feet, Over 25 Tons. This is the world's largest round pizza, created by five Italian chefs to break the record set in South Africa in 1990. Plus this one is gluten free. Great, now I want Domino's.
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- Cheyenne, Wyoming averages the most hail storms in the United States per year with 10 and Tulsa, Oklahoma experiences the most severe hail storms annually. The United States leads the world with an average of over 1,000 reported tornadoes each year.
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Glacier Calf That Broke Off Greenland's Jakobshavn Could Be Largest Ever A glacier calf, or chunk of ice, measuring nearly five square miles broke away from Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier sometime in August, making it the largest piece to ever break away from one of the world's fastest melting glaciers. glacier, calf, iceberg, jakobshavn, greenland.
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- The Chelyabinsk meteor is the largest recorded object to have encountered the Earth since the Tunguska event. The asteroid impact that caused Mistastin crater generated temperatures exceeding 2,370 °C, the highest temperatures known to have occurred on Earth.
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New U.S. record hailstone falls in South Dakota Well, here’s one for the record books. An intense hailstorm in Vivian, South Dakota last Friday produced a giant hailstone 8″ in diameter and weighing in at 1.9 pounds! The NWS in Aberdeen, South Dakota and a 3 person NOAA team confirms the record for the largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States. Abredeen NWS photos. (Click to enlarge). 55-year old ranch worker Les Scott found the new record chunk of ice.
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- Hailstones ranging from the size of peas to the size of golf balls are common in severe thunderstorms, and can cause serious damage to cars, skylights, glass-roofed structures, crops and vegetation. On rare occasions, massive hailstones have been known to cause concussions and even death.
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Drop (liquid) However, drops up to 10 mm (equivalent in volume to a sphere of radius 4.5 mm) are theoretically stable and could be levitated in a wind tunnel. The largest recorded raindrop was 8.8 mm in diameter, located at the base of a cumulus congestus cloud in the vicinity of Kwajalein Atoll in July 1999.
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Largest organisms These flying insects reach their largest size in Palparellus voeltzkowi, which can have a wingspan over 16 cm (6.3 in). The largest lacewing is the blue eyes lacewing (Nymphes myrmeleonides) of Australia, which can measure up to 4 cm (1.6 in) in length and span 11 cm (4.3 in) across the wings.
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- May 5, 1995 Storm Chase Report. At the time, this was the most damaging hail storms to ever hit the United States occurred in Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas on May 5, 1995.ooking west at a lightning illuminated wall cloud that was located over Grand Prairie, between Dallas and Fort Worth. This was the core of the forward flank HP updraft that produced the flooding rains in Dallas County that night.
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Justice, Illinois: World's Largest Stained Glass Window World's Largest Stained Glass Window The world's largest stained glass window is actually in the mausoleum at Resurrection Cemetery in Justice. It contains 2,448 panels and is a whopping 22,381 square feet.
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Severe Weather 101 Hail is usually pea-sized to marble-sized, but big thunderstorms can produce big hail. The largest hailstone recovered in the U.S. fell in Vivian, SD on June 23, 2010 with a diameter of 8 inches and a circumference of 18.62 inches.
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- 1 hail: precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice (5 mm or more in diameter –anything smaller is considered an “ice pellet“).  snow: precipitation composed of white or translucent ice crystals, chiefly in the form of snowflakes.
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- Cygnus buccinator ORDER: ANSERIFORMES FAMILY: ANATIDAE. IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern. Trumpeter Swans demand superlatives: they’re our biggest native waterfowl, stretching to 6 feet in length and weighing more than 25 pounds—almost twice as massive as a Tundra Swan. Getting airborne requires a lumbering takeoff along a 100-yard runway.
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LARGEST TORNADO EVER!!! From Birth to Death (w/ Radar & Commentary) 5-31-13 At 2.6 Miles wide, this is the largest Tornado ever recorded. Touchdown was near El Reno Oklahoma on 5-31-13. This tornado was very deceptive to many due to its appearance and size.
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Hail Hail is possible within most thunderstorms as it is produced by cumulonimbi, and within 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) of the parent storm. Hail formation requires environments of strong, upward motion of air with the parent thunderstorm (similar to tornadoes) and lowered heights of the freezing level.t is distinct from sleet, though the two are often confused for one another. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Sleet falls generally in cold weather while hail growth is greatly inhibited at cold temperatures.
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Largest Hailstone in U.S. History Found August 4, 2003. It's official. The thunderstorm that pounded south-central Nebraska in June ended up leaving something for the record books: The largest hailstone ever recovered in the United States, a seven-inch (17.8-centimeter) wide chunk of ice almost as large as a soccer ball.
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How Big Was the Biggest Hailstone Ever? And as for the softball-sized hailstones that tore apart gutters and left craters in Nebraska cornfields in 2003? Those formed in a tempest with updrafts of at least 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour.
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- Biggest meteor craters on Earth. Vredefort, South Africa. Located at the south-west of Johannesburg, the crater is believed to have been made by an asteroid impact on Earth some two billion years ago. With an estimated radius of 118 miles (190 km), the crater is reportedly the site of the largest energy release in the world.
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Storm surge In the United States, one of the greatest recorded storm surges was generated by 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which produced a maximum storm surge of more than 25 ft (8 metres) in the communities of Waveland (41.5 ft), Bay St. Louis (38 ft), Diamondhead (30 ft) and Pass Christian (35 ft) in Mississippi.
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Hailstone could be state's largest on record National Weather Service officials are investigating whether a hailstone that fell near Pawnee and Maize Road on Wednesday night is the largest recorded in Kansas. Courtesy photo.
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Mammoth Oklahoma tornado was widest ever recorded â almost strongest, too The tornado that ripped through El Reno, Okla. , on Friday was the widest tornado ever recorded and had winds that hit nearly 300 miles per hour, close to the highest wind speed ever measured, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday.
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How Big Was the Biggest Hailstone Ever? View full size image. On June 22, 2003, chunks of ice the size of softballs rained down on Aurora, Neb. One, a jagged behemoth with a 7-inch (17.8-centimeter) diameter, entered the record books as the largest U.S. hailstone ever.
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Hail Formation [I wrote extensively on the updraft in the April 2002 Almanac. Click here for a portal to those articles.]. For the smallest hail to form, an updraft of around 36 to 54 km/h (24-34 mph) is required. Larger stones -- those termed golf-ball size (1 3/4 inch diameter) -- require updrafts of around 88 km/h (55 mph) to form. Softball-size hail involves updrafts exceeding 160 km/h (100 mph).
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- Jupiter's icy moon Callisto is shown here in approximate natural color. At the lower left is the impact structure, Asgard surrounded by concentric rings up to 1,700 kilometers (about 1,050 miles) in diameter.he largest craters have been erased by the flow of the icy crust over geologic time. Two enormous concentric ring, impact basins are found on Callisto. The largest impact basin is Valhalla. It has a bright central region that is 600 kilometers in diameter, and its rings extend to 3000 kilometers in diameter.