Tornado, Stearns
- When
- May 5, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Stearns County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 45.720, -94.920
Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 5, 1965
11 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- 6
- Property damage
- $7.9 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 12
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
11 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Douglas
- When
- May 5, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 20.7 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 45.900, -95.420
Hail, Olmsted
- When
- May 5, 5:43 PM CST
- Where
- Olmsted County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.880, -92.400
Tornado, Sibley
- When
- May 5, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Sibley County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 11.2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -94.200
Tornado, Douglas
- When
- May 5, 6:16 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3.6 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 46.470, -95.420
Tornado, Becker
- When
- May 5, 6:46 PM CST
- Where
- Becker County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 67 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 46.850, -95.500
Tornado, Fillmore
- When
- May 5, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 18.8 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.500, -92.020
Tornado, Houston
- When
- May 5, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Houston County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 18 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.680, -91.730
Tornado, Winona
- When
- May 5, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Winona County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 6.2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.850, -91.450
Tornado, Wabasha
- When
- May 5, 8:25 PM CST
- Where
- Wabasha County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.120, -92.220
Tornado, Winona
- When
- May 5, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Winona County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.850, -91.900
Tornado, Mower
- When
- May 5, 9:04 PM CST
- Where
- Mower County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 23.6 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.500, -92.600
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.
- 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10055550, 10055551, 10055552, 10055553, 10055554, 10055555, 10055556, 10055557, 10055558, 10055559, 10054210, 10054211.