How To Document Hail (Before The Evidence Melts)

By Chris SpearsDENVER (CBS4) – When hail strikes an area reports to the National Weather Service are critical to document the storm.
The simple reason is because the evidence melts, potentially within minutes, and if hail isn’t documented in the official U.S. storm database, there’s no formal record that it happened.
Hail reports are kept by the Storm Prediction Center and supplemental reports can be found with the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network.
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