{"id":393866,"date":"2024-03-15T04:12:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=393866"},"modified":"2024-03-15T04:12:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:12:24","slug":"kansas-missouri-hit-with-baseball-sized-gorilla-hail-amid-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/kansas-missouri-hit-with-baseball-sized-gorilla-hail-amid-severe-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas, Missouri hit with baseball-sized \u2018gorilla hail\u2019 amid severe weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather experts predict torrential rain from central Louisiana up through central Arkansas on Friday<br \/>\n Kansas<br \/>\nResidents of Kansas and Missouri were urged to stay indoors after massive pieces of \u201cgorilla hail\u201d pelted on the bordering states causing severe traffic along Interstate 70, Kansas City Star reported.<br \/>\nAccording to American media, at least one unconfirmed tornado was reported in Kansas while the National Weather Service (NWS) said quarter-size hail was expected across northern Kansas overnight until 6am on Thursday.<br \/>\nDescriptions of the hail ranged from the size of golf balls and apples, to softballs and baseballs, which Alex Sosnowski, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, deemed to be \u201cgorilla hail\u201d.<br \/>\nThe term was coined by Reed Timmer, a storm chaser who calls himself an extreme meteorologist.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you get up to tennis ball, baseball-sized or God forbid softball-sized, that can do a tremendous amount of damage, and if you get hit in the head, that could be fatal,\u201d Sosnowski said.<br \/>\nImages of large hail chunks and at least one cracked windshield were shown on KSHB-TV.<br \/>\nThe weather service issued a severe thunderstorm watch for parts of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas until Thursday morning, then forecasters predict the storm will move east.<br \/>\nHowever, heavy rain and high winds are still possible from northeastern Texas to central Missouri.<br \/>\nAdditionally, Sosnowski said that torrential rain from central Louisiana up through central Arkansas is expected on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather experts predict torrential rain from central Louisiana up through central Arkansas on Friday Kansas Residents of Kansas and Missouri were urged to stay indoors after massive pieces of \u201cgorilla hail\u201d pelted on the bordering states causing severe traffic along Interstate 70, Kansas City Star reported. 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