Tornado, Buffalo
- When
- May 8, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Buffalo County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 44.170, -99.430
Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, May 8, 1965
13 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 3
- Property damage
- $2.6 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 18
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
13 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Tripp
- When
- May 8, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Tripp County
- Rating
- F5
- Path length
- 30.1 mi
- Path width
- 1,760 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -99.720
Tornado, Tripp
- When
- May 8, 5:23 PM CST
- Where
- Tripp County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.180, -99.830
Tornado, Gregory
- When
- May 8, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gregory County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 43.170, -99.330
Hail, Minnehaha
- When
- May 8, 6:24 PM CST
- Where
- Minnehaha County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.580, -96.680
Tornado, Sully
- When
- May 8, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Sully County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.680, -100.030
Tornado, Miner
- When
- May 8, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Miner County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3.3 mi
- Path width
- 243 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.950, -97.500
Tornado, Potter
- When
- May 8, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.100, -100.100
Tornado, Clay
- When
- May 8, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.770, -96.820
Tornado, Brule
- When
- May 8, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Brule County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.670, -99.230
Thunderstorm Wind, Stanley
- When
- May 8, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Stanley County
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.280, -100.280
Tornado, Stanley
- When
- May 8, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Stanley County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -100.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Hughes
- When
- May 8, 8:35 PM CST
- Where
- Hughes County
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -100.400
Tornado, Potter
- When
- May 8, 9:32 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.200, -100.300
Tornado, Dewey
- When
- May 8, 10:25 PM CST
- Where
- Dewey County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.300, -100.700
Tornado, Corson
- When
- May 8, 10:35 PM CST
- Where
- Corson County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.500, -100.500
Thunderstorm Wind,
- When
- May 8, 10:52 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Coordinates
- 45.500, -100.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Codington
- When
- May 8, 11:20 PM CST
- Where
- Codington County
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.880, -97.180
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.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 8, 1965
- Tornado in Arkansas, May 8, 1965
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, May 8, 1965
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, May 8, 1965
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 8, 1965
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 8, 1965
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 8, 1965
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 8, 1965
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 8, 1965
- Hail in Wyoming, May 8, 1965
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 8, 1965
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, May 8, 1965
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: 10110260, 10110261, 10110262, 10110263, 10110264, 10110265, 10110266, 10110267, 10110268, 10110269, 10110270, 10110271, 10110272, 10110273, 10110274, 10110275, 10110276, 10110277.