Fantastic example of hail doing what it wants

(Preferentially produced by elevated supercells north of the greatest perceived risk, even though both targets featured supercells)

8 months ago I had a vision: what if we had a unified, track-based dataset of all severe events?

Still a lot of improvements I can make to the algorithm itself, but otherwise, looks like we have one now. I can't wait to see what we can do with this 👀

Ever wondered how hailstorms vary across the year? Here's all radar-estimated hail swaths by month since 2011. Love seeing the northwest flow monsters come alive June-August!

[MRMS MESH > .75", colored by max hail size]

Here it is. The last 10 years of hail events across the U.S. using my prototype hail tracking algorithm!

Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.

This is wild. Reminds me of the convective mode I've observed when a hurricane eye contracts so tightly that it's effectively a supercell.

Interesting day with many discrete storms producing only occasional tornadoes, which rapidly occlude and rope out into the rear flank. This may be a symptom of excessive low-level storm-relative flow and a general absence of rear-flank nudgers/mergers to prevent occlusion.