How does hail happen?

Answer 1

Hail consists of large ice particles that have a layered structure, and are produced by intense thunderstorms that form in a very unstable air mass, that is, one that was relatively cool dry air overlying very warm and humid air. The unstable air is necessary to produce large updraft speeds -- fast enough to keep a developing hailstone from falling to the ground. Some of these updrafts can reach 60 mph or more. Small ice particles that form above the freezing level in the thunderstorm collect rain water on them, forming a water shell that slowly freezes. If these growing hailstones fall into another updraft, they can continue to grow, until they finally become too large for the updraft to carry them, or they get caught up in a downdraft, and they finally reach the ground.

Answer 2

Hail is produced when ice pellets in a thunderstorm are suspended in a strong updraft and collect supercooled water droplets that freeze on contact. Eventually the hailstone grows to heavy to be held up by the updraft and falls to earth.

Answer 3

Hail starts out like rain. But typically it gets blown upwards (updrafts into cumulous clouds). the higher up you go, the colder the air is. The rain freezes, and then tumbles out the sides of the updrafts, falling on us as little chunks of ice.

Answer 4

water is pushed up into the atmoshere and frozen and falls, collects more water, and is pushed up, this cycle is repeated multiple times until it itoo big to be pushed back up. it u pick one up after a storm, you'll see it was in layers

Answer 5

Hail occurs in thunderstorms with strong updrafts and turbulent upper level winds.

Inside those storm water droplets grow and are carried upwards by the updraft of the storm. The water freezes as it is colder at higher altitudes. The chunk of ice then descends and gathers more moisture on its surface then is carried upwards again and the new layer of water freezes. As this cycle continues that hailstone grows until it is too heavy to be held up by the winds of the storm.

Answer 6

It is caused by strong updrafts that lift frozen water droplets up and down in the air until they are too heavy to stay airborne. Then they drop towards the earth and, viola! You have a hail storm.

Answer 7

Hail storms are occurs when the atmosphere reaches freezing points forming ice, the ice is suspended in the air by drafts, eventually they fall back down, this process repeats it self until hail stones are formed.

Answer 8

Hail forms when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops high into the cold regions of the atmosphere, where they freeze into ice. The ice pellets continue to grow as they are circulated within the storm, until they become too heavy to remain airborne and fall to the ground as hailstones. The size of the hailstones depends on the strength of the storm and the amount of time they spend circulating within it.

Answer 9

Hail occurs when it starts to rain and then the raindrops freeze. This is because it's colder in the sky than down here.