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The giant hailstone that fell last Friday in South Dakota has taken from Nebraska one of its two hailstone records.
Hailstones are measured by diameter, circumference and weight. Nebraska will retain the record for the least interesting of the three: circumference.
The giant South Dakota hailstone measured 8 inches across and weighed in at 1 pound, 15 ounces.
Both of those are new U.S. records, the National Weather Service announced today.
Previously, a hailstone that fell in 2003 in Aurora, Neb., held the record for diameter at 7 inches.
The Aurora hailstone retains the record for circumference, measuring 18.75 inches around. The stone that fell in South Dakota was not quite that big around, measuring 18.62 inches.
The heaviest hailstone ever recorded fell in Bangladesh in 1986 and weighed 2.25 pounds.
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