Hail,
- When
- May 12, 10:20 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.880, -98.580
Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, May 12, 1962
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind,
- When
- May 12, 10:20 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.880, -98.580
Tornado, Minnehaha
- When
- May 12, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Minnehaha County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 10.1 mi
- Path width
- 880 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.530, -96.980
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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
- Hail in Iowa, May 12, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 12, 1962
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 12, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 12, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 12, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Florida, May 12, 1962
- Hail in Texas, May 12, 1962
- Hail in Minnesota, May 12, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 12, 1962
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1962Every state in 1962This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 1962
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: 10112470, 10112471, 10112472.