Hail in Ida County, Iowa

Hail August 15, 2025 · Ida County, Iowa

1.5 in

Hail diameter

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Intermittent hail was not quite the size of a golf ball at times.

The wider storm

A cluster of thunderstorms developed across northwest Iowa within a focused warm advection zone. Storms used around 1500 J/kg MUCAPE and 40 knots of deep-layer shear to organize into small clusters. The strongest storms on the south side of the cluster closer to U.S. Highway 20 produced up to ping-pong ball size hail.

Began near Holstein (42.5129, -95.5235).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1290555. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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