A Workshop on North American Hail and Hailstorms: What Next?

The research outputs provided foundational knowledge on hailstone properties, microphysics, and severe storm dynamics. [...]a recent resurgence, little attention was paid to hail within the research communities, relative to more threatening perils (e.g., tornadoes, hurricanes), despite the mounting costs of hail damage across the globe. Figure 1 provides a time history of AMS journal publications that have “hail” or “hailstorm/s” in the title or as a keyword relative to other topics (i.e., hurricanes/tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and climate change). The T-28 continued flying hail missions for 33 years, with its last flight in 2003. Since the 1980s, field programs have focused on severe storm dynamics and thermodynamics (VORTEX, STEPS, VORTEX-2, PECAN, TORUS, etc.). Since 2000, the population of Colorado has grown by 1.3 million people (2015 U.S. Census).