Tornado, Charles Mix
- When
- May 21, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Charles Mix County
- Rating
- F3
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -98.580
Tornadoes in South Dakota, May 21, 1962
6 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
- 34
- Property damage
- $5.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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
6 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Gregory
- When
- May 21, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gregory County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 47.9 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.230, -99.480
Tornado, Davison
- When
- May 21, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Davison County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 167 yd
- Injuries
- 32 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.720, -98.050
Tornado, Sanborn
- When
- May 21, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Sanborn County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 10.4 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.020, -98.280
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- May 21, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.130, -96.450
Tornado, Minnehaha
- When
- May 21, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Minnehaha County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.830, -96.720
What these are
- 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.
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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10112489, 10112490, 10112491, 10112492, 10112493, 10112494.