A grapefruit-sized hailstone that fell just northwest of Bethune, Colorado, on Tuesday may break the state’s record with a 4.83 inch diameter. It weighed 8.5 ounces and had a circumference of nearly 13 inches.
“I've been at this office 21 years and to have something like that happen, and happen in the area that we serve, and to be able to go out there and kind of partake in history -- it was pretty special,” said Dave Thedes, a meteorologist at the Goodland, Kansas, National Weather Service.