Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 6, 1965

Name: Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 6, 1965
Start: 1965-05-06T18:08
End: 1965-05-06T23:00
Location: Minnesota

May 6, 1965 · 14 events in 7 counties and zones

10 tornado, 4 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

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The toll

Deaths: 13
Injuries: 683
Property damage: $250 million
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 14

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

10 tornado, 4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Carver

When: May 6, 6:08 PM CST
Where: Carver County
Rating: F4
Path length: 7.7 mi
Path width: 300 yd
Deaths: 3 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 87 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 44.780, -93.750

Tornado, Hennepin

When: May 6, 6:15 PM CST
Where: Hennepin County
Rating: F4
Path length: 4.6 mi
Path width: 300 yd
Injuries: 88 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 44.900, -93.730

Tornado, Carver

When: May 6, 6:27 PM CST
Where: Carver County
Rating: F4
Path length: 6.9 mi
Path width: 200 yd
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 44.850, -93.530

Hail,

When: May 6, 6:30 PM CST
Where: County
Measured: 1 in hail
Coordinates: 45.080, -93.280

Tornado, Sibley

When: May 6, 6:34 PM CST
Where: Sibley County
Rating: F3
Path length: 15.5 mi
Path width: 167 yd
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 44.680, -94.170

Tornado, Sibley

When: May 6, 6:43 PM CST
Where: Sibley County
Rating: F2
Path length: 3 mi
Path width: 667 yd
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 75 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 44.670, -93.980

Tornado, Carver

When: May 6, 6:47 PM CST
Where: Carver County
Rating: F2
Path length: 8.2 mi
Path width: 667 yd
Injuries: 100 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 44.720, -93.930

Tornado, Anoka

When: May 6, 7:06 PM CST
Where: Anoka County
Rating: F4
Path length: 6.8 mi
Path width: 1,000 yd
Deaths: 3 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 175 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 45.030, -93.280

Hail, Martin

When: May 6, 7:30 PM CST
Where: Martin County
Measured: 3 in hail
Coordinates: 43.580, -94.400

Hail,

When: May 6, 7:51 PM CST
Where: County
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Coordinates: 45.580, -94.180

Tornado, Hennepin

When: May 6, 8:14 PM CST
Where: Hennepin County
Rating: F4
Path length: 5.9 mi
Path width: 667 yd
Deaths: 6 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 50 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 44.980, -93.380

Tornado, Ramsey

When: May 6, 8:25 PM CST
Where: Ramsey County
Rating: F4
Path length: 7.6 mi
Path width: 667 yd
Injuries: 108 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 45.050, -93.280

Tornado, Anoka

When: May 6, 8:40 PM CST
Where: Anoka County
Rating: F4
Path length: 3.8 mi
Path width: 667 yd
Property damage: $25 million
Coordinates: 45.130, -93.170

Hail, Hennepin

When: May 6, 11:00 PM CST
Where: Hennepin County
Measured: 1 in hail
Coordinates: 44.880, -93.280

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Tornado, Sibley	1965-05-06				Direct

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

Every storm in Minnesota in 1965 Every state in 1965 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Minnesota, 1965

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: 10054426, 10054427, 10054428, 10054429, 10054430, 10054431, 10054432, 10054433, 10054434, 10054435, 10054436, 10054437, 10054438, 10054439.