@Least $1 Billion In Damage From 4/28 Hailstorms In OKC, Ft. Worth, SA; 2" To Baseball-Sized Stones

[hatrack]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=916

One hailstorm is bad enough, but a trio of hailstorms striking three metropolitan areas in one night is almost unheard of. Baseball- to softball-size hail pummeled parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday night, slamming places around Fort Worth, San Antonio and Oklahoma City, including Norman. The damage will almost certainly exceed $1 billion. Hail has historically been the most costly severe weather hazard in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and Wednesday night’s storms illustrate why.

“It quickly became clear that we were almost certainly facing a billion-dollar event,” wrote Steve Bowen, head of catastrophe insight at Aon Insurance. “Unfortunately, we saw significant hail swaths impact highly exposed areas around San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Norman.” Across Texas and Oklahoma, the National Weather Service received nearly three dozen reports of significant hail, of two inches or greater in diameter, and 17 of baseball size or larger.

At least once instance of four-inch hail was observed in Hondo, Tex., west of San Antonio, from a prolific rotating thunderstorm that crossed into South Texas from Mexico.

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While areas northwest of Fort Worth were getting pummeled, a second storm was raging in the Sooner State and targeted parts of the Oklahoma City metro area south of downtown. One storm pulsed up in intensity southwest of the city and east of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike around dusk, growing into a monster as it trekked toward Interstate 35. Norman, where the University of Oklahoma is located, was in the direct path of baseball-size hail.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/04/29/texas-oklahoma-large-hail/

[Mickju]

1. My nephew lives in Norman.

One of their cars was totalled and they have roof damage as well.