Hail, Benton
- When
- August 25, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.000, -92.180
Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, August 25, 1965
4 hail, 4 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- $775,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 hail, 4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Howard
- When
- August 25, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Howard County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.9 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.430, -92.280
Tornado, Des Moines
- When
- August 25, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Des Moines County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.870, -91.300
Hail,
- When
- August 25, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.780, -91.080
Hail, Des Moines
- When
- August 25, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Des Moines County
- Measured
- 4 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.000, -91.280
Tornado, Winneshiek
- When
- August 25, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Winneshiek County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 14.7 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 43.320, -91.980
Tornado, Clayton
- When
- August 25, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Clayton County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.7 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 43.070, -91.380
Hail, Winneshiek
- When
- August 25, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Winneshiek County
- Measured
- 3.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.280, -91.780
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Ohio, August 25, 1965
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 25, 1965
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, August 25, 1965
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 25, 1965
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 25, 1965
- Tornado in South Carolina, August 25, 1965
- Hail in Kansas, August 25, 1965
- Damaging Wind in Montana, August 25, 1965
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10016072, 10016073, 10016074, 10016075, 10016076, 10016077, 10016078, 10015083.