I've never seen a tornado up close, but I've seen baseball size hail.
Really you don't want to see a bad hailstorm either. Trust me.
I agree. Anything beyond soft, slushy pea sized hail is something to avoid.
Maybe someone can go out just after the storm, gather up the giant hail, put it in the freezer and sell it on e-Bay to you.
***** “I’ve never seen a tornado up close, but I’ve seen baseball size hail. “ ******
And since you are posting we can assume you had adequate cover. I was plowing a field on an open Tractor when my Uncle came screaming up Screaming “ YOU IDIOT “ ... we both ran to an Old Barn, he ripped the lid off of a Feed Bin and made me get under it, glad he did ... bout 3 minutes later big Hail was pelting us through the roof of that old barn... as he said “It only takes one to kill you” cause a few were a lot bigger than the others.
The reason he was calling me an idiot is that the sky had turned from regular blue to green then to purple... but what I noticed most is what I noticed least after the fact ... wherever you are at go outside and you will hear birds singing ... complete silence ... they all quit or had left the area (I couldn’t have heard them anyway I was on a Tractor).
TT
(Literally minutes after the Hail Storm ... Birds started singing again)