‘Sonic ice in Crosby!’: KPRC 2 staff, viewers share photos via Click2Pins after pea-sized hail fell over Houston area

HOUSTON – Houstonians were caught by surprise on Monday evening after a storm dropped pea-sized hail over the area.

KPRC 2 staff members and viewers were quick to drop their photos via Click2Pins.

However, the hail may look pea-sized, but according to the National Weather Service, the pebble-sized ice crystals are called graupel. Graupel is soft, small pellets formed when supercooled water droplets freeze onto a snow crystal, a process called riming. Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail, as the graupel particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled.

Check out the photos from our Click2Pins users here:

Be safe and submit your videos and photos of all of the weather action on Click2Pins.com. We could feature yours on-air or online.

Don’t see your photos and videos yet? Share what’s happening where you are via Click2Pins.

Here’s how to submit. There are four ways to make it easy📸🤳:

1. Go to Click2Pins.com to share them! It’s easy -- log in or create an account. Go to the upload a pin button, find your photo on your phone and tell us about it. Choose your category under a channel, then click upload and you’re done!

2. Go to the Click2Houston app and click on the top left menu. In the dropdown tap Click2Pins. Log in or create an account. Go to the upload a pin button, find your photo on your phone and tell us about it. Choose a category and channel that fit best, then click upload pin.

3. Go to the KPRC 2+ app, click on the menu at the top left of the screen to find Click2Pins or scroll down to find Click2Pins. Go to the upload a pin button, find your photo on your phone and tell us about it. Choose a category and channel that fit your pic best, then click upload pin.

4. Go to the KPRC 2 weather app and click on the camera icon at the bottom of the screen. Log in or create an account. Go to the upload a pin button, find your photo on your phone and tell us about it. Choose a category and channel that fit best, then click upload pin.