Hail map for Fort Dodge, IA — September 22, 2025
NOAA radar detected hail up to 1.50″ — half dollar size — within 5 miles of Fort Dodge on September 22, 2025.
- Max hail size
- 1.50″
- half dollar
- Impact rating
- 5/10
- from stone size
- Size bands over the city
- 2
- distinct radar bands
- Reached the ground
- 70%
- NOAA POSH probability
- Measured on the ground
- 1.00″
- 12.7 mi away · Trained Spotter
NOAA's Probability of Severe Hail peaked at 70% over Fort Dodge that day — high: around even odds of 1″ hail reaching the ground. It is a separate model from the size estimate above: one asks how big the stones were in the storm, the other asks whether they made it down.
Sizes come from NOAA MRMS radar (MESH), which runs about ±0.25″ against ground truth. It is canvass-targeting quality, not claim evidence.
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Every storm over Fort Dodge →What people on the ground measured in Fort Dodge, IA on September 22, 2025
3 reports filed with the National Weather Service — 1 from trained spotters or officials. These are measured stones, not radar estimates, so they are the closest thing to proof that hail actually reached the ground.
- 1.00″ quarter size Trained Spotter4 SE Dakota City, IA · 12.7 mi away8:02 PM CDTHumboldt County
- 1.00″ quarter size Public4 WNW Woolstock, IA · 14.2 mi away8:20 PM CDTWright County
Received via social media. Occurred at Prestage Foods of Iowa.
- 0.75″ penny size Public2 N Fort Dodge, IA · 3.0 mi away8:44 PM CDTWebster County
Report from mPING.
Reports come from the National Weather Service Local Storm Report feed, ingested every 15 minutes. A report records where the observer was, not the full extent of the swath — treat it as evidence about the storm, not about any one roof.
Fort Dodge hail on September 22, 2025
NOAA radar estimated stones up to 1.50 inches — half dollar size — within about 5 miles of Fort Dodge that day, across 2 distinct size bands. Sizes vary street to street inside a single swath.