Tornado, Spink
- When
- April 16, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Spink County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.300, -98.100
Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, April 16, 1967
5 tornado, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 11
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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
5 tornado, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Spink
- When
- April 16, 4:05 PM CST
- Where
- Spink County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 45.050, -98.180
Tornado, Day
- When
- April 16, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Day County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.600, -97.800
Tornado, Hamlin
- When
- April 16, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hamlin County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Injuries
- 11 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 44.580, -97.080
Hail, Brown
- When
- April 16, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 45.280, -98.500
Hail, Spink
- When
- April 16, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Spink County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 45.080, -98.500
Tornado, Clark
- When
- April 16, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Clark County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 880 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 45.000, -97.600
Thunderstorm Wind, Beadle
- When
- April 16, 7:32 PM CST
- Where
- Beadle County
- Coordinates
- 44.580, -98.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Brown
- When
- April 16, 8:37 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Coordinates
- 45.500, -98.400
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
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, April 16, 1967
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, April 16, 1967
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 16, 1967
- Tornadoes in Michigan, April 16, 1967
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 16, 1967
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, April 16, 1967
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 16, 1967
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1967Every state in 1967This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 1967
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: 10112563, 10112564, 10112565, 10112566, 10112567, 10112568, 10112569, 10112570, 10112571.