© Lino RamirezA massive hailstone, compared to the size of a quarter (left), recovered in Hondo, Texas, on April 28, 2021.
A Texas hailstone collected in April has now been confirmed by meteorologists as the largest on record in state history, according to
a report released Thursday.
The hailstone was captured, photographed and shared on social media on April 28, in Hondo, Texas, about 40 miles west of downtown San Antonio. It was then put in a freezer.
Hail experts from the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety coordinated with the National Weather Service office in San Antonio to examine and perform a three-dimensional scan of the hailstone on May 6.
They found the mammoth hailstone was 6.4 inches in diameter, the largest stone the IBHS has scanned, or roughly the size of a honeydew melon.
The hailstone weighed about
1.26 pounds, according to the IBHS, a national nonprofit initiative of the insurance industry to reduce deaths, injury, property damage, economic losses and human suffering caused by natural disasters, including hailstorms.
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