Hail looked like a winter wonderland in our two recent storms
Matthew Stein, who took that cover picture, grew up in the Bellville area and the storm Friday, March 15th is one he’ll never forget:
I’ve never witnessed anything like it in my whole time living here...there was so much hail on the ground it made fog...I couldn’t see anything. And also there was no power thru the whole town. I’ve never in my life seen something like that around here.Damage to homes, roofs, and trees was found all across Bellville in Austin County, especially south.
Unfortunately, those strong downdrafts also hit the ground and spread out . Those straight line winds are what caused so much damage across the area. The National Weather Service has some All told, these are fairly typical storms for us when winter’s cold is losing its grip to spring’s warmth--that difference in hot and cold is what creates such differences in the winds, so we get strong updrafts and strong downdrafts , but two such hail events in a week are, indeed, rare.‘The worst day:’ Family’s attorney speaks as Aliyah Jaico laid to rest
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