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Weather and Climate Field Report

Luke Wimmer observed a hailstorm in Bristol, Virginia while visiting family for Thanksgiving. Hailstorms cause $1 billion in annual damage to property and crops in the US. This hailstorm formed from a multi-cell thunderstorm that lasted an hour and a half. Small hailstones fell that were not large enough to damage cars. Hail forms when water droplets in thunderstorm clouds are carried to high, cold areas where they freeze onto other droplets before falling as hailstones.

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Weather and Climate Field Report

Luke Wimmer observed a hailstorm in Bristol, Virginia while visiting family for Thanksgiving. Hailstorms cause $1 billion in annual damage to property and crops in the US. This hailstorm formed from a multi-cell thunderstorm that lasted an hour and a half. Small hailstones fell that were not large enough to damage cars. Hail forms when water droplets in thunderstorm clouds are carried to high, cold areas where they freeze onto other droplets before falling as hailstones.

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Date: November 26, 2023

Author: Luke Wimmer


GEOG 1112 T/TR 2:20-3:35

Field Report 2

For my field report, I observed one of the most destructive weather phenomena

known to man, a hailstorm. Hailstorms cause approximately 1 billion dollars in damage

to property and crops across the United States annually, according to the NOAA. This

hailstorm took place in Bristol Virginia, where most of my extended family resides and

where me and my parents traveled to for Thanksgiving. Abingdon is settled right in the

Appalachian Mountains and is subject to many heavy thunderstorms and rainfall

throughout the year. This hailstorm formed right in front of my eyes, starting as a

Multi-cell thunderstorm that I screenshotted the radar of (Figure 1) which lasted for

about an hour and a half. Then me and my family began to hear the dreaded clinking

sound coming from outside. We ran to the door to see the tiny balls of white ice falling

from the sky (Figure 2). Hail is formed by the water droplets from a cumulonimbus

thunderstorm cloud being swept up into the higher elevations of the cloud where the air

is cooler and supercooled moisture is present. I could not see this process since the

thunderstorm was already practically on top of us and the rain continued to pour. This

supercooled moisture high up inside the cloud freezes onto the water droplets and as it

gets heavier gravity forces the hailstone up and down inside the cloud causing the

hailstone to gain more mass from the surrounding supercooled moisture. The hailstone

is eventually pulled to the surface once it is heavy enough. These hailstones (Figure 3)

were not very large so that means that the winds inside the Multi-cell thunderstorm
cloud were not very fast. For example, golf ball-sized hailstones are caused by

thunderstorms with around 60 mph winds. These hailstones thankfully were not large

enough to damage the cars that were outside (Figure 2). After about 20 more minutes

the thunderstorm passed and the little hailstones were left behind as seen in the picture

of the floor mat (Figure 3). I was thankful to be able to experience this weather

phenomenon whilst keeping my distance and thankfully no property damage was done

to my uncle’s house or cars which was whose house we were staying at over

Thanksgiving.

Figure 1- Radar screenshot of the Multi-cell thunderstorm surrounding Bristol VA/TN


Figure 2 (This is a screenshot from a video, I didn't take pictures I only had a video)

Figure 3- Picture of the floormat outside after the storm had passed

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