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PHOTOS: Intense storms unleash tennis ball-sized hail on parts of Alberta

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Digital Writers
Published on Jul. 31, 2020, 1:35 PM

Severe thunderstorms whipped through southern Alberta Thursday evening, dropping hail as large as tennis balls.

Southern Alberta was in the line of fire for severe weather again Thursday evening, as intense thunderstorms dropped hail of varying sizes on some locales. Hailstones ranged in size from toonies to tennis balls, as the storms cut through in the evening hours.

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Weather Network video journalist Kyle Brittain was covering the storms, and caught a few different hailstone sizes near Morley, Alta., including one that measured 6.5 cm in diameter -- tennis ball-sized.

See below for images of the incredible hailstones that pelted parts of Alberta, shared to social media when the storms rolled in.

Thumbnail courtesy of Kyle Brittain.