Nation has experienced 8 billion-dollar disasters so far this year
![Huge hailstone from June 24, 2021, storm in Texas that set the record for largest hailstone to fall in the state. (Image credit: Resident submitted photo, courtesy of National Weather Service Forecast Office, San Antonio ) Huge hailstone from June 24, 2021, storm in Texas that set the record for largest hailstone to fall in the state.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/2021-07/20210624-Texas-Hailstone%20Holding_0.jpg?h=f2d2491c&itok=t6-3GaiV)
This large hailstone, being held with two hands, fell from a severe thunderstorm at approximately 7:35 pm CDT on April 28, 2021, near Hondo, Texas. NOAA’s NCEI verified that it's the largest hailstone on record to fall in Texas; it had a diameter of 6.416 inches and weighed 1.26 pounds. This severe weather outbreak across Oklahoma and Texas was one of eight billion-dollar disasters that struck the U.S during the first six months of 2021. (Image credit: Resident submitted photo, courtesy of National Weather Service Forecast Office, San Antonio )