St. Louis Hail: Baseball-Sized Hail Hits Maryland Heights Suburb (VIDEO)

Baseball-sized hail slammed the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights on Saturday.

YouTube user VDOMKR documented the storm from his home, recording several videos, the longest of which is more than two minutes and appears to capture the sound of breaking glass as the hail smashes a nearby car windshield.

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The sound of glass breaking can be heard at about 50 seconds and a warning siren can be heard throughout the video. The person filming describes the hail as "baseball-sized."

KSDK reported that "golf ball to teacup sized" hail sent people running for cover across the St. Louis metropolitan area during the Saturday afternoon storms.

High winds on Saturday collapsed a tent in St. Louis, injuring 200 people, according to the Associated Press, and one person was killed by a lightning strike.

The Huffington Post contacted the Maryland Height police department for comment but did not receive a reply as of press time.

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Comments

[Emily O]

08:21 AM on 05/02/2012

Lucky me... I was in the path of that thing. Ugh. My car's completely smashed up.

[alvdh1]

12:45 PM on 05/02/2012

I was in Maryland Heights when the sky started dropping hail bombs on my car that I had purchased on Tuesday.

[Emily O]

11:38 AM on 05/03/2012

Yikes! I feel your pain there. I've had my car only six weeks.

[JRTOTT]

10:43 AM on 05/01/2012

Now thats some big hale

[whatsit2yadudes]

09:27 AM on 05/01/2012

"St. Louis Hail: Baseball-Sized Hail Hits Maryland Heights Suburb"

Gives new meaning to the words..."Grand Slam".

[wakeuprightnow]

08:55 AM on 05/01/2012

Isn't it nice to have a garage and not use it. Now you go crying to your insurance company because either you are to stupid to put it in the garage or your garage has become a junk room.

[Lisa67]

06:19 PM on 05/02/2012

I agree with you. I do not understand why someone would buy a house with a garage and never park their cars in it. We live in Md Hgts and the hail storm did not damage our cars because they were in the garage. Our neighbor, who we think may be starting a used car lot, has 5 cars - 4 parked on the street and one in his driveway. Needless to say, our neighbors vehicles were heavily damaged. To not use your garage for your vehicles makes no financial or common sense to me.

[marvineh2001]

08:53 AM on 05/01/2012

We ought to feel lucky we don't have burning hail here like they did in Egypt when the Ten Plagues fell upon them and they gave the Israelites their gold and silver after leaving them in slavery to build their monuments with their blood, sweat and tears. I am here to tell you that the treasure that lies beneath the city in Israel will be found and it wil give you an idea of the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous of God. God will give me my $Trillions of dollars they cannot deny God or me. I am surrounded by thieves, killers, and assasins who constantly want to do me in. I cannot tell you but Angels descend in each city to protect me because God will put curses upon even nations that refuse them they get these boils upon their bodies now that devour them with the worms that are inside their stomachs now, it is painful and horrible. Lot had his Angels that destroyed Soddom and Gammorah too and don't look back upon the destruction watch them run now in confusion.

[ottovonb]

12:02 PM on 05/01/2012

Gov. Palin, is that you posting under one o' your fake names again? You kidder!

[Lilmiss3]

08:23 AM on 05/01/2012

What is that God-awful sound in the video....???

[Daniel Richard]

08:44 AM on 05/01/2012

That's a storm warning siren,

[MrBillSTL]

07:57 AM on 05/01/2012

I live in STL, and the rain and winds were insane on Sat. Back in 2001, a hail storm totaled both of my cars, and did $20k worth of damage to my house.

[Lisa67]

06:14 PM on 05/02/2012

Yes, that was 4/10/2001. I am in insurance and remember it well - and will probably remember 4-28-2012 much the same. Hopefully, you were not affected by this storm as well.

[Rock Fossil]

07:35 AM on 05/01/2012

Who through out the first ball.......GOD???

[LkeToRead]

07:24 AM on 05/01/2012

We are driving down that way in a week. I sure hope that bad St. Louis weather clears up by then!!

[Lisa67]

06:20 PM on 05/02/2012

Um, we have bouts of bad weather all spring and summer. Good luck!

[antipodal2u]

07:03 AM on 05/01/2012

(Global warming)

[rothomaha]

06:58 AM on 05/01/2012

Batting practice for the Cardinals, courtesy of Heaven!

[charlcreat]

06:52 AM on 05/01/2012

I guess I'm lucky, never seen anything like that. Those stones look like they could drop a human being. I do remember a storm blowing through about 12 years ago damaging vehicles and shredding vinyl siding and some roofing but baseball sized would have been lethal( rush hour storm ). I'll take dry and dull weather over that kind of 'excitement'.

[Ezra 7]

06:29 AM on 05/01/2012

18 So tomorrow at this time I will send a hailstorm worse than any in all of Egypt's history. 19 Quick! Order your livestock and servants to come in from the fields. Every person or animal left outside will die beneath the hail.'" 20 Some of Pharaoh's officials believed what the LORD said. They immediately brought their livestock and servants in from the fields. 21 But those who had no respect for the word of the LORD left them out in the open. 22 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Lift your hand toward the sky, and cause the hail to fall throughout Egypt, on the people, the animals, and the crops." 23 So Moses lifted his staff toward the sky, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. The LORD sent a tremendous hailstorm against all the land of Egypt. 24 Never in all the history of Egypt had there been a storm like that, with such severe hail and continuous lightning. 25 It left all of Egypt in ruins. Everything left in the fields was destroyed -- people, animals, and crops alike. Even all the trees were destroyed

[Rock Fossil]

07:35 AM on 05/01/2012

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Lahonda]

10:15 AM on 05/01/2012

The hail in Egypt (as described in the Bible) were actual stones. In modern language, we have subverted the meaning of hail to mean frozen water falling from the sky.

[Rock Fossil]

04:53 PM on 05/01/2012

I like your name La Honda because back in '98, I leased an Accord in Los Angeles and here you are again. You have many fans....you must be very cool-Hail Caesar.

[Ezra 7]

07:17 PM on 05/01/2012

you have separated the meaning of the word.....they were hailstones........a hard pellet of water.....look it up...

[bwerewolves1984]

06:16 AM on 05/01/2012

What the HAIL is going on?

[Robert Huber]

06:01 AM on 05/01/2012

I saw this once where I live. The whole town was awakened in the middle of the night with World War Three going on outside. Baseballs on my side of town; grapefruits on the other side of town. Pretty much every roof in town was replaced. That was some freaky stuff.

The weather people didn't seem to notice until sometime in the middle of the afternoon the following day. But ever since then, anytime there is a hint of rain, the weathermen all say "THERE COULD BE HAIL!"