Hail storm in Gorazde (Bosnia & Hercegovina)

[RADE POPADIC]

Hi All!

A huge stormy cloud developed during late afternoon and evening at 19th of June 2007 in eastern parts of Bosnia and Hercegovina. The cloud looked like this just before 7PM:

Crometeo member was west of stormy cloud and he took a photo of it:

Radar at 8PM. 70dBZ!!!

Finally the "show" started. The storm hitted the eastern Bosnian city of Gorazde. Gale force winds, and than hail stones size of a tennis ball. The eyewitness say that some stones were up to 4kg! In storm many people were injured, a lot of cars, roots, windows... were destroyed. here are some of the pictures from Gorazde web site:

The whole reportage with VIDEO you can see here:

REPORTAGE FROM GORAZDE

[pottyprof]

Quality Photo's and Video Rade, as always. Wouldn't have wanted to have been caught out in the open.

[RADE POPADIC]

I wrote to the web Gorazde, and they said to me that the information about 4kg hailstone is probably correct, many people who witntessed confirm this. The latest infomations says that 4 people were hitted by this hail!

There have been unconfirmed information that one hailstone in the village Desevo weighted 6kg!

There are also infomations that some of the huge hailsotned are being kept in the fridges!

[MP-R]

Wow!

[Greyowl]

Great pics and information Rade.

[Cookie]

reminds me of the day after tomorrow.

that must have been as scary as hell!

[RADE POPADIC]

3 new videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq0OXB34wmE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3lU9lg98Lo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF4yK8GwXls

[stratus]

Rade Popadic, bravo..... as usual

[Rustynailer]

That lot deserves a Net Weather Oscar B)

I watched all 5 videos and came to the conclusion that my roof would leak badly after such an onslaught and would need replacement (nervous laugh)

Nice reporting Rade and thank you.

Russ.

[PersianPaladin]

I blame the Serbs myself......cloud-seeding...tut tut.

<_<

[Cookie]

I blame the Serbs myself......cloud-seeding...tut tut.

:ph34r:

dose that really happen?

[suffolkboy_]

No chance were they 4 kilograms, that would mean that they contain 4 litres of water. If it was a cube then it would be 16cmx16cmx16cm (6"x6"x6") of water. I cant remember the formula for the volume of a sphere, but it would be very large. There is no way that they were that size

[Tim B]

Wow, awesome!

Brilliant pictures there too.