Hail in Des Moines on Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Des Moines on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, between 5:50 pm and 8:00 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 6 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at Winterset (Madison County) at 7:54 pm. NOAA radar flagged 282 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 149 rated a 100% chance of hail and 137 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 6 places in Madison, Polk and Warren counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Winterset 4 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Carlisle 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Cumming 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Earlham 1 report, up to 2.50 in
- Hartford 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Runnells 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:50 pm | 1.75 | Carlisle | Warren | time estimated. (DMX) |
| 5:50 pm | 1.00 | 4 NW Runnells | Polk | public safety reported quarter size hail northeast of Runnells. (DMX) |
| 6:09 pm | 1.25 | 1 E Hartford | Warren | (DMX) |
| 7:02 pm | 1.00 | 4 S Cumming | Warren | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (DMX) |
| 7:54 pm | 2.75 | Winterset | Madison | From WHO TV viewer. (DMX) |
| 7:56 pm | 2.50 | 5 S Earlham | Madison | (DMX) |
| 7:57 pm | 1.50 | Winterset | Madison | Ping pong hail in winterset. (DMX) |
| 7:58 pm | 1.75 | 1 NE Winterset | Madison | Public reported golf ball sized hail on the northern edge of Winterset. Submitted picture via social media. (DMX) |
| 8:00 pm | 1.50 | Winterset | Madison | From WHO TV. (DMX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
282 signatures from 3 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 149 were rated 100% and 25 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDMX | 156 | 85 | 78 | 17 | 3.25 in | 5:30 am | 11:50 pm |
| KOAX | 78 | 36 | 32 | 7 | 2.75 in | 6:09 am | 11:55 pm |
| KDVN | 48 | 28 | 27 | 1 | 2.00 in | 6:22 am | 11:50 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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