Hail in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Friday, August 15, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 12 hail reports in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Friday, August 15, 2025, between 4:42 pm and 6:12 pm CDT, in 5 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 1.25 inches at 1 SE Apple Valley (Dakota County) at 6:12 pm. NOAA radar flagged 420 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 172 rated a 100% chance of hail and 145 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 8 places in Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin and Washington counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Victoria 4 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Burnsville 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Apple Valley 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Brooklyn Park 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Champlin 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Circle Pines 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Rogers 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Woodbury 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:42 pm | 1.25 | 2 WSW Victoria | Carver | (MPX) |
| 4:44 pm | 1.25 | 1 SE Victoria | Carver | (MPX) |
| 4:51 pm | 1.25 | 2 W Victoria | Carver | (MPX) |
| 4:52 pm | 1.25 | 1 S Victoria | Carver | (MPX) |
| 4:53 pm | 1.25 | 1 S Woodbury | Washington | Relayed through spotter network. (MPX) |
| 5:02 pm | 1.00 | Rogers | Hennepin | Just northeast of I-94 and Highway 101. (MPX) |
| 5:17 pm | 1.00 | Champlin | Hennepin | (MPX) |
| 5:29 pm | 1.00 | 2 N Brooklyn Park | Hennepin | (MPX) |
| 5:55 pm | 1.25 | 1 WSW Burnsville | Dakota | Hail was photographed near County Roads 42 and 5. Hailed for five minutes. Time based on radar. (MPX) |
| 5:55 pm | 1.25 | 1 N Circle Pines | Anoka | Photo sent via Facebook. (MPX) |
| 6:06 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE Burnsville | Dakota | (MPX) |
| 6:12 pm | 1.25 | 1 SE Apple Valley | Dakota | Hail was photographed. (MPX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
420 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; 172 were rated 100% and 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMPX | 163 | 63 | 60 | 14 | 2.75 in | 3:05 pm | 8:08 pm |
| KDLH | 131 | 46 | 41 | 2 | 2.00 in | 3:28 pm | 8:12 pm |
| KARX | 126 | 63 | 44 | 7 | 2.50 in | 12:35 am | 8:06 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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Minneapolis-St. Paul when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 9 counties (Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, Dakota, Washington, Scott, Carver, Wright and Sherburne counties). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.