Gigantic, softball-sized hail could be in store for Midwest, South

FOXNews:  Questions about the incredible images of ping-pong ball sized stones forming a four-foot deep wall on the Texas panhandle were answered Friday when the National Weather Service declared them legitimate -- with a warning that you ain't seen nothing yet.

Baseball- or even softball-sized hail could hit the South this weekend, NWS officials warned Friday.

“I do think we’ll see larger hail over the next couple days,” Justyn Jackson, a meteorologist with the Amarillo, Tex., Weather Forecast Office, told FoxNews.com. “It’s possible that we could maybe see baseball-sized hail, maybe even softball-sized. That’s not out of the realm of possibility.”

    'We could see baseball-sized hail, maybe even softball-sized. That’s not out of the realm of possibility.'

- Justyn Jackson, meteorologist

“We think it’s going to be east of our area -- Oklahoma, Kansas, those areas,” Jackson said.

Forecasters at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., an arm of the National Weather Service, issued a stronger warning Friday. There's a high risk of severe weather from Oklahoma City north to Salina, Kan., they said. The severe storms are expected to strike Saturday afternoon and evening.

“Folks in the broader Great Plains should monitor this situation closely,” warned Jack Hayes, co-director of NOAA’s National Weather Service.

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