Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging wind gusts over parts of eastern ND and northwest MN during the late afternoon and evening hours.
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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.
The episode as NWS FGF wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging wind gusts over parts of eastern ND and northwest MN during the late afternoon and evening hours.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 11:25 AM CST, 3 hours earlier.
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</html>Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Grand Forks ND 409 AM CDT Sat Jun 28 2025 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027-028-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030- 038-039-049-052>054-290915- West Polk-Norman-Clay-Kittson-Roseau-Lake Of The Woods- West Marshall-East Marshall-North Beltrami-Pennington-Red Lake- East Polk-North Clearwater-South Beltrami-Mahnomen- South Clearwater-Hubbard-West Becker-East Becker-Towner-Cavalier- Pembina-Benson-Ramsey-Eastern Walsh-Eddy-Nelson-Grand Forks- Griggs-Steele-Traill-Barnes-Cass-Ransom-Sargent-Richland- Western Walsh- 409 AM CDT Sat Jun 28 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of eastern North Dakota, west central and northwest Minnesota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight There is a level 1 out of 5 risk for severe thunderstorms late this afternoon into the evening. The main hazards will be hail up to the size of ping pong balls and wind gusts to 60 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required today. MNZ029>032-040-290915- Wilkin-West Otter Tail-East Otter Tail-Wadena-Grant- 409 AM CDT Sat Jun 28 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of west central Minnesota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight There is a level 2 out of 5 risk for severe thunderstorms late this afternoon into the evening across west central Minnesota. The main hazards will be hail up to the size of ping pong balls and wind gusts to 60 mph. There is a low potential for an isolated tornado to develop. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required today.
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Grand Forks ND
258 PM CDT Sat Jun 28 2025
NDZ024-026-282030-
Nelson ND-Eddy ND-
258 PM CDT Sat Jun 28 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN NELSON AND EASTERN
EDDY COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM CDT...
At 257 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Mchenry, or 26 miles northeast of Carrington, moving northeast at 10
mph.
HAZARD...Penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of southwestern Nelson
and eastern Eddy Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 4784 9860 4770 9824 4767 9829 4767 9850
4759 9850 4759 9883
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 220DEG 11KT 4764 9863
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
Rafferty/LynchThe Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:27 UTC.
10 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Photo received via social media. Largest hail stone estimated to be almost to golf ball sized, most of which were irregular and jagged shaped.
Largest hail was quarter size.
Quarter size hail reported.
Picture shared via social media.
Report of quarter size hail.
Report relayed via social media. Quarter size hail and zero visibility in thunderstorm.
Report relayed from mping.
Report relayed from mping.
Report via ice-chip research team.
Public sent in photo of hail beside a quarter.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Dakota in 2025Every state in 2025This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, June 2025
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1272673, 1272675, 1272676, 1272678, 1272681, 1272689, 1272692, 1272693, 1272695, 1272697.