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Hail Report Information
Station Number: CO-JF-267
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Station Name: Golden 9.4 WNW
Date: 6/11/2009 11:42 PM
Submitted 7/05/2010 4:44 PM
Taken at registered location: True
Notes: There appears to be no way to enter two separate hail reports for a single day, even when they are separated by 9-10 hours. So here are two separate reports. As I examined the pad in the early afternoon, I was able to quickly estimate that there were about 7000 rice size strikes in the first storm (11:42AM-11:47AM, followed at 11:58AM by a short burst of pea-sized strikes. A second storm raged between 9:30 and 9:45 PM. As I had not removed the hail pad after the late morning storm, strikes from larger, soft hail and heavy, freezing, viscous rain erased >90% of the rice-sized strikes and covered the hail pad with ~842 hits from the 3/8 inch hail stones that I found frozen into a 1-inch slab wherever grassy vegetation protected the freezing rain from contact with the warmer earth. The hail pad looks reminiscent of a glacial topography. See the neighbors' Weather Underground station KGOGOLDE14 for 6/11/09 at http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KCOGOLDE14&month=6&day=11&year=2009 Their station is 1/2 mile east of mine and several hundred feet lower. Complaint to management: There seems to be no way to submit separate hail storms in one day.
Hailstone Information
Largest Size: 1/2" Grape
Average Size: 3/8"
Smallest Size: Rice
Stone Consistency: Hard, Soft, Mixed, White Ice
Hail Storm Information
Duration Minutes: 25
Duration Accuracy: 3min
Timing: Intermittent
More Rain than Hail: False
Hail Started: After rain
Largest Hail Started: After smaller hail
Damage: minor leaf damage
Hail pad information
Angle of Impact: 30-40
Number of Stones On Pad: 991
Distance Between Stones On Pad: 0.2
Depth Of Stones on Ground: 1
Has Samples: False