A Texas tornado produced massive spiked hailstones that were bigger than the size of a pineapple, according to stunning new images taken by locals.
Val Castor, a storm chaser with NEWS 9 in Oklahoma City, posted photos on Facebook that showed the giant hail chunks he found after a tornado passed through the Texas Panhandle.
Castor said he found the impressive icy stone three miles north of Vigo Park.
The melon-sized hail chunks – which he held in his hands for size comparison – fell during a thunderstorm that produced Sunday’s tornado in the Texas Panhandle.
The hailstone that Castor and his wife discovered after the tornado was at least seven inches long, and may be the biggest ever produced by a storm in the state.
The storm chasing couple were 10 miles northwest of the Mackenzie Reservoir in Swisher County when they found the large hailstone.
The pair took the stone and compared it to a 6.5 inch tall Monster Energy drink can, a pineapple, and a glove.
The biggest hailstone in Texas was found in Hondo on April 28, 2021 and it measured 6.4 inches.
However, a Texas tornado back in May threatened the state record after Texas resident Katie Puckett found a hailstone longer than six inches outside of Austin.
‘The first hail that we got was golf ball-sized. And at that point, I was like, “Oh no, this is bad,”‘ she told FOX Weather.
‘So, we kind of sat and watched it for a minute, and then within maybe a minute or two of having the golf ball size, it started to get about baseball size, and it just progressively got worse after that.’
Texas is one of several states that has experienced tornadoes over the last few weeks that have killed at least 20 individuals, seven being in the Lone Star State.
X users have posted their opinions on the hail storms and one person even mentioned storm chasers.
‘The tornado and hail warnings are getting old. My new most watched YouTube channel is Texas storm chasers,’ an X user tweeted on June 3.
One X user wrote about the ‘mega storms’ in Texas and tweeted about last week’s state weather conditions.
‘Last Thursday, we had a massive storm with heavy rain and hail that piled up on the yards, and two tornadoes,’ she wrote.
‘It’s not huge, but still. Tornadoes didn’t hit where I live, thank goodness.’