Hail, Pottawattamie
- When
- May 6, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawattamie County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.370, -95.870
Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 6, 1975
4 hail, 2 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Pottawattamie
- When
- May 6, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawattamie County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 12.8 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.400, -95.850
Hail, Harrison
- When
- May 6, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.520, -95.730
Hail, Harrison
- When
- May 6, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.500, -95.900
Tornado, Pottawattamie
- When
- May 6, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawattamie County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 10.6 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.470, -95.870
Hail, Harrison
- When
- May 6, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.650, -95.800
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 Nebraska, May 6, 1975
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 6, 1975
- Tornadoes in South Dakota, May 6, 1975
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, May 6, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 6, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 6, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 6, 1975
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 6, 1975
- Hail in Kansas, May 6, 1975
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 6, 1975
- Hail in Florida, May 6, 1975
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1975Every state in 1975This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1975
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: 10011465, 10011466, 10011467, 10011468, 10011469, 10011470.