Storm dumps waist-high hail in Texas Panhandle

[billym]

News from The Associated Press

DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- Maintenance crews worked Thursday to clear roads after a storm dumped several inches of hail on parts of the Texas Panhandle, trapping motorists in muddy drifts that were waist-to-shoulder high.

The storm left so much hail in its wake that workers had to use snow plows to clear the piles from the road.

"It was crazy," National Weather Service Meteorologist Justyn Jackson said about the strange storm, which hit Wednesday afternoon. The hail was "real small" but there was a lot of it in a concentrated area, accumulating 2- to 4-feet deep, he said.

The rural area where the storm struck was mainly ranch land, about 25 miles north of Amarillo and south of Dumas. Rainwater gushed across the parched land, washing dirt and then mud into the hail, pushing it all onto U.S. 287, Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said.

"There were just piles of hail," said Maribel Martinez with the Amarillo/Potter/Randall Office of Emergency Management. "Some of the cars were just buried in hail and people were trapped in their cars."

[mattfivefour]

If you want to see an incredible picture of the hail, look at this picture on the WFAA-TV website.

Those are not boulders the man is standing beside. Those are drifts of hail stones!

[anath]

[Meg]

WW!!

[Robert]

Yeah, " " pretty much sums it up....

[Meg]

I found this in a report from MSNBC; I hope it helps calm some jittered nerves... Still, surely we are nearing the Rapture!!

U.S. News - 4 feet of hail in Texas? Reports, photos cause quite a storm

But Jose Garcia, chief forecaster at the weather service in Amarillo, told msnbc.com it probably wasn't the most hail the region has seen.

"Five to 6 feet deep hail" fell in nearby Dalhart, Texas, in 1993 during a very similar storm, he said. It took almost a month for some roads to reopen as the compact ice melted slowly. "It was almost like huge snow drifts," he said.

[makememeek]

I found this in a report from MSNBC; I hope it helps calm some jittered nerves... Still, surely we are nearing the Rapture!!

U.S. News - 4 feet of hail in Texas? Reports, photos cause quite a storm

Jittery??????

Don't you have a relationship with Jesus Christ?
If you do, you should have the peace that passeth all understanding.
Philippians 4:7.


Everyone of us is only one HEARTBEAT away from eternity.
We are never guaranteed another breath.
There are over 1,000 ways to die every day.
You never know when your time comes.
Hailstones can kill too.

[billym]

We are seeing some amazing things happen, I wonder what it would take to get people to look up? I am thinking we will see more events as the birth pains get closer together. JMHO

[FaithInChrist]

That is insane! I have never seen hail like that in my life! I didn't even realize it could hail that much in one storm. I agree A body would be in serious trouble if it got caught out in a storm like that. Glad all the people in cars were rescued. I wonder if any lifestock got flash frozen?

[mattfivefour]

Jittery??????

Don't you have a relationship with Jesus Christ?
If you do, you should have the peace that passeth all understanding.
Philippians 4:7.


Everyone of us is only one HEARTBEAT away from eternity.
We are never guaranteed another breath.
There are over 1,000 ways to die every day.
You never know when your time comes.
Hailstones can kill too.

Excellent. I like to see messages aimed at the unsaved! This is a good use of a natural event to "speak" to people who have not met the Savior.

[Cricket55]

Well they say things are big in Texas.

[Neohistory]

Well they say things are big in Texas.

Somehow, I doubt one would want to take pride in this fact lol

[YeuEmMaiMai]

Jittery??????

Don't you have a relationship with Jesus Christ?
If you do, you should have the peace that passeth all understanding.
Philippians 4:7.


Everyone of us is only one HEARTBEAT away from eternity.
We are never guaranteed another breath.
There are over 1,000 ways to die every day.
You never know when your time comes.
Hailstones can kill too.

even though I have a relationship with Christ, you are NOT going ot be able to tell me that one would not be fearful of that hail storm if they are in it. There are plenty of instances in the Gospels of the disciples being scared dispite the fact that the Lord Jesus was right there with them....

[Joseph The Carpenter]

WOW

[WKUHilltopper]

I don't think that's all that rare of an event in that part of Texas. Doesn't happen every day, but once in a "blue moon". Seems like about 15 years ago, they got something like 5 feet of hail outside of Dallas or near there.

[David T. McKee]

I found this in a report from MSNBC; I hope it helps calm some jittered nerves... Still, surely we are nearing the Rapture!!

U.S. News - 4 feet of hail in Texas? Reports, photos cause quite a storm

Nothing to see here folks, now please move along. Everything is as it always was, yes... move along now.

Not!