The guy that found it says it was about 3 inches bigger, but the power outage following the storm, knocked out the power to his freezer.
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America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration committee declared that the hailstone, found in the town of Vivian on July 23, measures a whopping eight inches in diameter and weighs a hefty one pound, 15 ounces. The committee says the South Dakota ice chunk breaks records set by hailstones discovered in Nebraska and Kansas.”
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A guy I know from another forum was driving to Colorado that day, and every piece of sheet metal on his truck, except the driver's door, looks like it was beaten with a hammer.
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