PART 1 - Lemon sized hail - Keilor hail storm 15:30 25/11/2011 on Christmas day Melbourne Australia.

This is a video of lemon sized hail that bombarded our house on Christmas day (2011) in Keilor, Melbourne, Australia. The windscreen was smashed on the Subaru Forester, as well as total body damage to the Magna and the Forester. We weighed one of the hail stones at 70 grams (after melting for 10 mins). Just imagine one of these babies hitting your head at 160 KM/h (terminal velocity). We were lucky as the roof tiles stood up to the pounding. One of our neighbors (retired) was less fortunate as the hail had smashed their roof tiles. They had torrents of water gushing in through their light fittings etc. My other neighbor had their brand new Renault destroyed (made from very thin metal for fuel economy) and had a few house windows smashed too. The Renault suffered more damage from lighting strikes -- won't start -- sus the engine management system has been spiked. We had 3 hail storms -- the video is of the first. The second had smaller hail but lots of rain. The third had lots of rain with smaller hail and thunder/lightening directly overhead. The thunder shook the house. I unplugged everything from the power points -- saw it coming on the BOM -- so all of our appliances survived. The first storm made a very load roaring sound -- it was quite amazing. I guess the sound came from higher altitude winds that froze these lemon sized monsters?

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• christmas
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• keilor
• 25/11/2011
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• forester
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• lemon

[GeekDshit]

Oops Gee, look really Bad, hope u are ok...

[Mr84gpz900r]

Yeah, it was very bad. The neighbors with the spiked car had to replace a lot of roof tiles – saw the tradies up there today. I live in a court location with 7 houses. 4 out of the 7 houses had to have roof tiles replaced. 2 of the houses in the court have concrete tiles (including mine) – no damage. The other houses had terracotta tiles and they were smashed to pieces. These things were like meteorites – unbelievable stuff – lucky no one was killed. All the best for the new year.

[MrCohibaboy]

lol yeah it was pretty random everywhere some places got bigger ones than others , funny about the kids liking the hailstones splashing the pool while id be worried about the cars hahaha , we in thomastown got big smaller hailstones first round then i put my car in the garage and then the big hail started pounding after that so i was lucky . funny about the renault cheap euro trash what are they italian or french cars lol.