Downpour vs Hailstorm - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between downpour and hailstorm

is that downpour is a heavy rain while hailstorm is .

is to pour down; rain heavily.

(en noun)

a heavy rain

They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.

* cloudburst * deluge * rain * rainstorm * storm * wet * torrent * monsoon * inundation

(en verb)

To pour down; rain heavily.

* 2002 , Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211 :

It started to downpour , so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.