Baseball-size hail causes widespread damage in Madison area
STATE JOURNAL STAFF
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Tuesday’s hailstorm shattered Madison resident Asias Sky Johnson’s rear windshield. “It looked like someone had taken a golf club to it,” said Johnson, who was working at the Willy Street Co-op on Madison’s North Side when the storm hit.
ASIAS SKY JOHNSON
Pieces of hail collected Tuesday from a yard on Madison’s Far West Side are shown on a cutting board with a quarter and a golf ball.
BARRY ADAMS, STATE JOURNAL
Large hail litters a yard on Madison’s East Side Tuesday evening.
Madison took a direct hit Tuesday evening from massive hail, some of it larger than baseballs, that smashed cars, tore up roofs and threatened to overwhelm repairers and insurance companies.
Tuesday’s hailstorm shattered Madison resident Asias Sky Johnson’s rear windshield. “It looked like someone had taken a golf club to it,” said Johnson, who was working at the Willy Street Co-op on Madison’s North Side when the storm hit.
Cars with shattered back windshields sit in a parking lot at the Dane County Regional Airport on Wednesday. Hail as large as 4 inches in diameter caused widespread damage in the Madison area Tuesday evening.
Tuesday’s hailstorm shattered Madison resident Asias Sky Johnson’s rear windshield. “It looked like someone had taken a golf club to it,” said Johnson, who was working at the Willy Street Co-op on Madison’s North Side when the storm hit.
Cars with shattered back windshields sit in a parking lot at the Dane County Regional Airport on Wednesday. Hail as large as 4 inches in diameter caused widespread damage in the Madison area Tuesday evening.
Tuesday’s hailstorm shattered Madison resident Asias Sky Johnson’s rear windshield. “It looked like someone had taken a golf club to it,” said Johnson, who was working at the Willy Street Co-op on Madison’s North Side when the storm hit.
