| Photographed by Matthew Sittel of the Air
Force Weather Agency, Offutt Air Force Base.
Matt writes: These hail photos were taken May
4, 2003 from our back yard. We live 3 miles south of Offutt AFB near
the intersection of US75 and Platteview Road. The largest stone I picked
up was 3.5" diameter (first photo). Note that this was taken about half
an hour after the stone fell... so it probably melted a little. This
fell about 4:25pm CDT... total duration was about 2 minutes of the very
large hail; we had 1/2" to 3/4" diameter for a longer period. We were fortunate
not to have any damage, save for the dent in my wife's car. Some
of our neighbors were not as lucky though, with broken front and back car
windshields, skylights, and
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