DeGray community hit with 'zombie' hail -

Holy hail!

Parts of Clark County were hit late Wednesday night with a thunderstorm carrying hail the size of hen eggs. The hailstones took on the shape of gargantuan kidney stones by the time they hit the ground.

Shortly after 9 p.m. the National Weather Service in Little Rock issued a severe thunderstorm warning capable of producing half-dollar-sized hail and 50 mph winds. We posted the warning to our Facebook page and soon thereafter started receiving photos of the hail.

“I think I’m going to increase that [half-dollar-sized] size of hail,” Courtney Cole, of the DeGray community, said. “Had some zombie hail, too.”

**Courtney Cole photographed this hail that fell in the DeGray community late Wednesday.**

**Kendra Campbell shared this image of hail that fell outside her home in the DeGray community.**

**Kandice Hamilton, who lives in the Lower Lake area, took this photograph.**

**Katie Francis, of the Piney Community, took this picture.**

**Stacy Collie reported this hail fell between Malvern and Donaldson earlier Wednesday evening.**

While “zombie” hail has a nice ring to it, hailstones of various shapes have no special name other than hail. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hailstones can have a variety of shapes and include lumps and bumps that may even take the shape of small spikes.

Marble-sized hail was reported in Caddo Valley. We received no reports of hail in Arkadelphia, and at the time of this writing, on Thursday morning, we hadn’t heard official reports of any widespread damage.

Roger Wingfield, an Arkadelphia insurance agent, said State Farm received 30 claims of hail damage within the first 30 minutes of opening for business Thursday morning, “not counting what was filed online.”