{"id":3967,"date":"2019-06-12T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T10:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2019-06-13T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T17:25:15","slug":"giant-hail-over-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/giant-hail-over-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant hail in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, 11 June 2019, multiple severe storms occurred over parts of Central Europe. Several of these storms were prolific hail producers and two of them even produced hailstones reaching a diameter of 10 cm or more, which we call <strong>giant hail<\/strong>. Such large hail was reported from Gorz\u00f3w Wielkopolski-Ustronie<strong> <\/strong>and Wojcieszyce in <strong>western Poland<\/strong> with the largest stone measuring 12 cm. This makes it the biggest oficially measured hailstone in this country according to our partner Skywarn Polska. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giant hail also occurred in Stari Trg ob Kolpi, <strong>southern Slovenia<\/strong>, and Brod Moravice, <strong>northern Croatia<\/strong>, with maximum reported hail diameter of 11 cm. This hailstorm actually tracked very close to the path of another giant hail producing storm last year that struck Crnomelj, Slovenia, with hail up to 12 cm in diameter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With these events ocurring, one might wonder how <strong>rare <\/strong>such large hail actually is in Europe. Before 11 June 2019, giant hail was reported <strong>91 times<\/strong> in the <strong>European Severe Weather Database<\/strong> (www.eswd.eu) across many different regions in Europe (see figure below) and <strong>42 times<\/strong> since the founding of ESSL on <strong>1 January 2006<\/strong>.  Giant hail comprises on only about<strong> 0.38% of all large hail<\/strong> <strong>reports <\/strong>(minimum diameter 2 cm) submitted to the database. Such hail can cause very serious damage, injuries and occasionally be fatal to humans and animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/hail_giant_11_06_2019_2-1024x816.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/hail_giant_11_06_2019_2-1024x816.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/hail_giant_11_06_2019_2-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/hail_giant_11_06_2019_2-768x612.png 768w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/hail_giant_11_06_2019_2-376x300.png 376w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/hail_giant_11_06_2019_2.png 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Very large and giant hail reports across Europe based on the European Severe Weather Database (www.eswd.eu).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have we observed even <strong>larger<\/strong> hail sizes in the past over Europe? The answer is actually yes: The largest reported hail sizes in recent years are <strong>15 cm<\/strong> on<strong> 20 June 2016<\/strong> in S\u00e2nandrei in <strong>western Romania<\/strong> and <strong>14.1 cm<\/strong> on <strong>6 August 2013<\/strong> in Undingen in <strong>southwestern Germany<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, 11 June 2019, multiple severe storms occurred over parts of Central Europe. Several of these storms were prolific hail producers and two of them even produced hailstones reaching a diameter of 10 cm or more, which we call giant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/giant-hail-over-europe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}