Q1: Where are you?
Q2: Is there any shelter around you?

Tell the caller...

• If it is still hailing, you must find shelter. If you can't find something to protect your entire body from injury, then at least find something to protect your head.
• Stay out of culverts and lowland areas that might fill suddenly with water.
• Trees are a last resort. It is common during severe storms for trees to lose their branches. Also, large isolated trees attract lightning.

NOTE: If the reported size is ¾" or greater, mark the location of the report on a map. Pass the report along to both the local Emergency Operations Center (or Emergency Manager), and the nearest National Weather Service office (as time permits).