Often confused with sleet, hail can be enormously destructive to crops, structures, and can even kill people. What was the diameter of the largest hailstone ever recorded in the U.S.?

In 2010, an eight-inch piece of hail fell at Vivian, South Dakota. It weighed just under two pounds, and was almost 19 inches in circumference. The guy who found it almost used it to make cocktails but then decided to save it to show to the National Weather Service.

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