India had a hailstorm so bad it killed livestock

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


A high intensity hailstorm hit West Bengals Dinajpur Distict, injuring three persons, and damaging 100 huts. Livestocks were also killed. The storm, which lasted for two days and nights, blew away roofs of several hundred huts. The storm left scars across a nine km radius. The Regional Met Office in Jalpaiguri said the hailstorm was caused by a cloud formation over Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Gangetic Bengal.)
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has this happened to any US livestock, yet? for it surely will as it has happened in more places then just India.

[aquart]

1. Yes, it will. We do have better barns, of course.

But cattle in the field?

[ben_meyers]

2. A DISASTROUS TEXAS HAILSTORM

A DISASTROUS TEXAS HAILSTORM; Corn and Cotton Ruined, Cattle Killed, Buildings Demolished and Railroad Traffic Interrupted.

April 26, 1895, Wednesday

Page 1, 221 words

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 25. -- A terrible hailstorm swept through adjoining counties last evening. A courier from Lyttle, twelve miles south of here, reports that town and a strip of country five miles wide, extending through Wilson, Bexar, and Medina Counties, completely devastated by the storm.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CE5DE173CE433A25755C2A9629C94649ED7CF

[ensho]

3. wow - thanks for info

nt