HAILSTORM

• Hail


  A type of solid precipitation

  
• Hailstone


  The individual piece of layered, rounded or irregularly-shaped ice which occasionally produced during a thunderstorm

  
• Hailstorm


  Produced by a thunderstorm
• Hail Formation


  1. High amount of moist warm air ascends very quickly into thunderstorm clouds

  2. The water droplets from condensation reach the freezing level so fast
• Factors Favoring Hail


  • Lower temperature
  • Stronger updrafts caused by horizontal winds that tend to be forced upward upon hitting mountains (an effect called orographic lifting)
  • Shorter distance between the clouds and the high grounds which delays melting of hailstone