Record-breaking hailstone fell near San Antonio. A bigger one went into margaritas.

The National Weather Service has confirmed the state’s largest piece of hail ever recorded fell near San Antonio this spring. An even bigger piece appears to have been made into margaritas.

On the afternoon of April 28, a “supercell” storm developed just southeast of Del Rio, setting a course for San Antonio. By early evening, residents across the region were reporting 1-to-2 inch pieces of hail and winds between 70 and 100 miles per hour.

Around 7:30 p.m., residents in Medina County, including Hondo and Castroville, were reporting pieces of hail between 5 and 7 inches in diameter, and sending images to area news stations. What would eventually be designated Texas’s biggest piece of hail on record fell in Hondo, measuring 6.4 inches across, 12 inches in circumference, and weighing more than a pound.

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Rather amazingly, members of the NWS were able to use radar to detect almost the precise moment the record-breaking ice fell, and put it at approximately 7:35 p.m., according to a June 22 memo from the NWS to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

A few days later, on May 6, members of the NWS Austin-San Antonio team and the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety traveled to the hail finder’s home after seeing an image submitted on social media local TV station. According to the memo, because the ice had been put into the freezer without a bag, it likely shrunk slightly in size from the initial picture.

Members of State Climate Extremes Committee convened a few weeks later to confirm this mondo Hondo ice as setting the inaugural SCEC record for the State of Texas.

There is an addendum to this chilling tale: the record holder may not have been Hondo’s biggest hailstone that night. Another social media post shows a piece measuring up to 6.57 inches in diameter also fell on April 28. Unfortunately, researchers say they were unable to verify its size before it was blended into a batch of margaritas.