Dear Heinz Jürgen Punge, Kristopher M. Bedka, Michael Kunz, Sarah D. Bang, and Kyle F. Itterly!

Many thanks for providing detailed replies to the reviewers' comments.

May I please ask you to prepare a substantially revised version of your mnuscript, taking into account the reviewers' cooments, especially those to the feasibility of presenting all those steps in one paper. I can fully follow your argument (benefit for other authors), but the supporting evidence needs to be strengthened, as you suggest in your reply as well. Please give special focus on discussions of those aspects of the study, where assumptions are less certain or less evidenced.

Looking forward to receiving a revised version of this manuscript.

Best regards
Gregor Leckebusch

Dear Heinz Jürgen Punge, Kristopher M. Bedka, Michael Kunz, Sarah D. Bang, and Kyle F. Itterly!

Thank you very much for the resubmission of the manuscript "Characteristics of hail hazard in South Africa based on satellite detection of convective storms". To my opinion, the revised version documented a significant improvement, which is confirmed by the two reviewers, who provided now two additional referee reports, again with a very constructive level of suggestions.

I judge these recommended changes as overall very useful and doable and would thus like to inform you that NHESS does accept your manuscript for publication, subject to minor revisions as indicated by the two referee reports for the revised manuscript version.

I do not plan to send this out for additional review again but will review the implemented minor revisions myself (review by editor). If you could please indicate the changes (track changes mode) as well as provide a reply to each indicated further change by the reviewers. This would be very helpful.

Looking forward to receiving the revised manuscript.

All the best
Gregor

Dear Heinz Jürgen Punge, Kristopher M. Bedka, Michael Kunz, Sarah D. Bang, and Kyle F. Itterly,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2021-342 can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

You will soon be contacted by the journal publication office for the preparation of the final version of your manuscript. Please respond promptly to the requests of the publication office, as this will condition the time of your publication, and read carefully any copy-editing recommendations that they make. Let me remind you that final publication of your paper on the journal web site is subject to the payment of the appropriate service charges. Also, do not forget that as an open-access journal you can freely distribute your paper once it is published.

I take this opportunity to thank you and your co-authors for having selected Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) for the publication of your scientific work. I look forward to receiving further contributions to our journal from you and your co-authors.

Sincerely,
Gregor Leckebusch