Hail Is A Form Of Precipitation That Is Formed Under Certain Conditions. Hail Ca

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Term Paper Title	Hail Is A Form Of Precipitation That Is Formed Under Certain Conditions. Hail Ca
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Hail is a form of precipitation that is formed under certain conditions.  Hail can cause serious danger to people and property.
Hail is rain packed into round or irregularly shaped pieces of ice called hailstones.  Hailstones can be as small as a pea or as big as a grapefruit, sometimes even bigger than that.  Most hailstones are about one inch in diameter.  The bigger hailstones usually have bumps on them where they have grown more. The most layers ever found on a hailstone was twenty-five.  The only place that hail falls from is the upper part of Cumulonimbus clouds.  Hailstones fall only when the ground temperature is below freezing (World Book Encyclopedia, 8).
Many people confuse sleet with hail.  They say sleet looks like small hailstones, but sleet is really frozen raindrops.  Unlike hail, sleet forms near the ground in cold weather.
The biggest hailstone ever found was discovered in Coffeyville, a small town in southeast Kansas.  This hailstone weighed 1.671 pounds and was 17.5 inches in circumference.  The largest stone previously on record was almost the same size.  It was found in Potter, Nebraska on July 6, 1928.  The hailstone had a circumference of 17 inches and weighed 1.51 pounds (Dennis 54).
Hail can be extremely dangerous.  It can break windows, damage roofs, dent cars, injure and even kill people!  Crops are greatly affected.  Hail causes around two hundred million dollars in damage a year.  That’s a lot of money.  When the wind is blowing hailstones are at their worst.
The most common places to see hail is in Texas, through the Great Plains and up into Alberta, Canada.  Areas in the east of the high plains tend to have most of their hail in the spring.  Southeastern Wyoming, western Nebraska, and eastern Colorado also have massive amounts of hail falling mostly during  the summer (Merit Students Encyclopedia, 351-352).
The times in which hail occurs are different in each region.  In states bordering the Mississippi River and eastward, hailstorms usually happen between two in the afternoon and seven at night.  Those times also apply for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms.   On the high plains in the mountains hail falls mostly between noon and three in the afternoon.  Then the hail moves east into the Mississippi River area.  Warm, tropical locations have a small chance of getting hail.  Most likely it would melt before reaching the ground (Ludlum 148).
Most hailstorms last for about a half an hour.  They usually only affect areas a f...

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