Severe thunderstorms tore through parts of northern Argentina and southern Brazil Wednesday into early Thursday, dumping damaging hail, flooding rain, even spawning a tornado.
Hail up to the size of tennis balls pelted parts of Córdoba and Santa Fe provinces, west and northwest of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
Social media photos showed vehicles covered in dents, windshields smashed, homes with damaged shutters and roofs in Santa Fe province. The hail was enough to cover the grass. An eerie hail fog lingered after the storm passed in some places.
If that wasn't enough, a tornado was spawned in Córdoba province Wednesday.
The culprit to this was a strong jet-stream level disturbance pivoting east swinging east over warmer, more humid air ahead of cold front driving east across northern Argentina into Paraguay, far southern Brazil and Uruguay.
http://www.weather.com/storms/severe/news/argentina-hailstorm-tornado-brazil-flooding-nov2015
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