Posted on 05/16/2010 4:33:28 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Definitely a nice piece of hail. Nice, that is, as long as my car is in the garage.
Dang, the Safelite repair, Safelite replace, commercial comes to mind..
Another round of severe weather pounded the Oklahoma City metro area throughout Sunday afternoon. Up to baseball and golf ball sized hail damaged cars, homes, and other structures from Piedmont to Midwest City. Oklahoma City Fire Chief Deputy Cecil Clay said they responded to 3 structure fires in connection with the storm, and they also dealt with power lines that are down. The fire department also responded to multiple car accidents involved with the storm.
The hail started falling around 3:30pm in Northwest Oklahoma City, Edmond, Nichols Hills, the Village, as well as Midwest City. Significant damage to car windows, and home windows was reported along NW 122nd St., and near Lake Hefner. Flooding was reported on W. Memorial Road, and I-235 northbound near 50th St.
EMSA says they responded to 25 total injury calls in the metro. Seven of them were for traumatic injuries, 7 involved people who were hurt when their vehicle windows were damaged because of the hail, 5 calls were for lacerations, and 2 involved EMSA vehicles being hit by hail.
According to OG&E thousands were without power Sunday afternoon, most of which were in North Oklahoma City, the Village, and Nichols Hills. Traffic lights were out at W. Memorial Rd. and May Ave. near Quail Springs Mall.
The KSBI Thunder TV Weather Team will keep you updated on any other severe weather threatening the state.
I hope everyone is okay.
I hope everyone is okay.
I was just looking on the radar map to see which direction that storm was going (if it was going in the direction of Tulsa). Well, it's not and I guess we're okay in Tulsa, for now..., unless another thunderstorm like that one develops. The forecast is for Severe Thunderstorms in this area, too... but you never can tell where they're gonna develop.
that front yard looks like a driving range...God bless and stay safe.
You get above baseball size and the car will be fine inside your garage, but you'll need a new roof.
Stay safe.
Oh crap!
I suffered through one of those when I was stationed at Tinker in OKC. It put holes in our roof and did severe damage to the AWACS planes parked on the ramp at Tinker, not to mention the cars that got whacked. There were hail sales at car lots all over the city after that one.
that’s pretty big.
I’ll never forget the day I was taking a nap on my couch and was awoke by what I thought was neighborhood kids whacking the side of my house with baseball bats. It was softball sized hail. My motorcycle was sitting outside and I was standing at my front door with a blanket too chicken to run out and cover it. These things actually made sound as they fell through the air. It was like meteorites. Tree branches were falling down. Cars were totaled. Some houses in my neighborhood had hailstones pass through the roof and ceiling and land on the floors inside the houses. If they hit concrete, they disintegrated. if they hit ground, they bounced like 15 feet in the air.
I guess if one lives here long enough, one will end up with a car like that sooner or later ... :-)
Fortunately that sort of thing only happens in limited areas and for a limited time. It would be heck having that kind of stuff happen all the time with every thunderstorm ... :-)
I have a pic from a guy in Ok of a piece of hail that is 5 inches round! From the tornadoes that went through there a few days ago.
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