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Giant hail found in Texas Sunday may have smashed an all-time record in the Lone Star State, pending further examination by a team of scientists.

P​ineapple size: The hailstone was found Sunday evening by KWTV storm chaser Val Castor near the Texas Panhandle town of Vigo Park, about 40 miles southeast of Amarillo.

C​astor measured the hail to be 7.25 inches across.​ That's slightly longer than a 16-ounce energy drink can and close to the size of a pineapple, Castor said in a post.

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Potential T​exas state record: Just over three years ago, a 6.4-inch diameter hailstone found in Hondo, Texas, on April 28, 2021, was later confirmed as the state record.

Photos of the Vigo Park hailstone were sent to hail experts at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS). Wednesday afternoon, the IBHS team concluded the hailstone appeared to be just over 7 inches in diameter.

A​ccording to the National Weather Service office in Lubbock, Texas, in order for this state record to become official, an ad hoc State Climate Extremes Committee (SCEC), including state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, will have to examine all the data and make that final determination, which could take up to a couple of months.

Unofficially, hail between 6 and 8 inches in diameter occurred on Dec. 6, 1892, in Gay Hill, Texas, according to weather historian Christopher Burt. Another hailstorm on May 31, 1960, in Winkler County may have dumped hail up to 8 inches in diameter.

However, the SCEC report from 2021 stated there was no direct photo evidence of either of those events. Therefore, the Hondo hailstone became the official state record.

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Close to a national record: The largest hailstone on record measured in the U.S. was 8 inches in diameter in Vivian, South Dakota, on July 23, 2010. It was also the nation's heaviest (1.94 pounds).

The world's heaviest hailstone was a 2.25-pound stone in Bangladesh in April 1986.

Quite a supercell: This supercell thunderstorm Sunday evening was notable in other ways.

It spawned a photogenic stovepipe tornado over open country north of Silverton in Briscoe County.

A​nd almost two hours after producing the giant Vigo Park hailstone, i​t still lashed the ground with spikey hail over 5 inches in diameter in eastern Briscoe County.

D​VD-size hail just four days earlier: On May 29, another severe thunderstorm dumped hail as wide as a DVD near Morton, Texas, just east of the New Mexico state line.

T​hat giant hail was saved by storm chaser Matthew Cappucci and also examined by the IBHS.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. His lifelong love of meteorology began with a close encounter with a tornado as a child in Wisconsin. He completed a Bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then a Master's degree working with dual-polarization radar and lightning data at Colorado State University. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on X (formerly Twitter), Threads, Facebook and Bluesky.