North Dakota, 2025

Hail in North Dakota, September 11, 2025

September 11, 2025 · NWS BIS · 5 events in 2 counties and zones

A boundary stretching east from a surface low pressure system in northwest North Dakota combined with the northern tip of a low level jet to produce thunderstorms over north central North Dakota. Some of these storms became severe producing large hail.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
5

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS BIS wrote it up.

A boundary stretching east from a surface low pressure system in northwest North Dakota combined with the northern tip of a low level jet to produce thunderstorms over north central North Dakota. Some of these storms became severe producing large hail. The largest hail was two inches in diameter, and fell near Granville in McHenry County.

What forecasters said that day

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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 11, 11:49 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 11:49 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:36 UTC.

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Event by event

5 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pierce

When
September 11, 1:34 PM CST to 1:37 PM CST
Where
Pierce County, 3.9 mi NW of Wolford
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
48.540, -99.760

Hail, McHenry

When
September 11, 8:24 PM CST to 8:30 PM CST
Where
McHenry County, 0.46 mi W of Granville
Measured
2 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
48.270, -100.840

Hail, McHenry

When
September 11, 8:30 PM CST to 8:33 PM CST
Where
McHenry County, 2.3 mi E of Granville
Measured
1.25 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
48.270, -100.780

Hail, McHenry

When
September 11, 8:41 PM CST to 8:46 PM CST
Where
McHenry County, 0.83 mi NNW of Granville
Measured
2 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
48.280, -100.840

Hail, McHenry

When
September 11, 9:30 PM CST to 9:34 PM CST
Where
McHenry County, 1.38 mi W of Denbigh
Measured
1.25 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
48.320, -100.610

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1294351, 1294352, 1294353, 1294354, 1294355.