🍉 Hail the size of melons pounds the ground in Texas!

The Johnson City hail was so large that a meteorologist working at the NWS office in San Antonio was unsure of how to correctly input the storm report into a database because of its rarity.

Preliminarily, the Johnson City hail was the second largest ever witnessed in the state, but this ranking will likely change as meteorologists measure the ice and go back and look at radar returns.

Other large hailstones were reported outside of Fort Worth in the towns of Itasca and Granbury, which measured to be around the size of a grapefruit.

Hail forms when raindrops become suspended in powerful thunderstorm updrafts. The ice chunks typically start off as the size of peas and dimes but grow as they are suspended in the clouds. When the hailstone grows to a size that the updraft can no longer support, it falls towards the ground.

The FOX Forecast Center estimated that wind speeds in the updraft were well over 100 mph.