In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail In the Plains (ICECHIP). NSF funded field campaign to better understand all aspects of hail. https://icechip.niu.edu/
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Your contributions directly support research on hail size distributions, storm processes, and impacts...helping bridge the gap between field observations and forecasting.
Photos and notes on storm context or damage Even reports of no hail observed are useful for validation and improving spatial accuracy. E.g., when you are measuring across a hail swath, feel free to submit a report to note that no more hail is observed.
🚨CALLING ALL CHASERS🚨
If you’re out chasing, you’re in a unique position to capture some of the most valuable hail observations available. We invite you to contribute your hail reports to the ICECHIP database and help improve our understanding of severe hail events.
icechip.niu.edu/submit_repor...
Walmarting. Living our BEST life in search of hail today. #DOWLife @nsficechip.bsky.social
We’re especially interested in accurate measurements, not estimates. When possible, please report: Maximum dimension (Z) — the largest distance across the hailstone X and Y dimensions — measured perpendicular to each other Weight (grams) — optional but extremely valuable.
Swirls, whirls, and windshield cracking hail 😬. All in a days work near Seibert, CO on 5/21/2026! Some of those swirls and whirls crossed our delta-V = 40m/s, “it’s a tornado”, threshold 🌪️
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Don’t have a mobile radar? What about a ruler 😁? (It’s that rectangular thing…usually about 12 inches long 😁)
Under the mini COW 🐮 and Dow radar umbrellas 📡☂️, the heavy lifting was being done by the Pod People 👾! Pods were deployed near Coby, KS collecting the all-important thermodynamic and surface wind data in these hail storms 🧊! @nsficechip.bsky.social
Surveilling. Keeping it lean for this @nsficechip.bsky.social shake-out mission.
Fire ants 🐜, goat weed 🐐, and multi-frequency observations 📡📡🧊 of hailstorms 👍 @nsficechip.bsky.social
