By the next morning, the carnage was widely known throughout the state and country.

“The possibilities for applying data science and computational science approaches are endless,” said Jenni Evans, director of ICDS and professor of meteorology and atmospheric science.

Kelly Núñez Ocasio, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science student, has received an Alfred P. Sloan Minority Graduate Scholarship.

A hailstone of more than four inches is “certainly very large,” says Matthew Kumjian, a meteorologist at Penn State University.

Rachel Gutierrez, a graduate student at Penn State and co-author of the paper, found a connection between a storm updraft’s rotational velocity, or how fast it is spinning, and larger hail size.