Hail, Perkins
- When
- June 15, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Perkins County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 45.900, -102.200
Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 15, 1973
2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $28,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Brown
- When
- June 15, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 13 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 45.850, -98.450
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- June 15, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.320, -96.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Lincoln
- When
- June 15, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Coordinates
- 43.380, -96.550
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- 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 Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 15, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 15, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 15, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 15, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 15, 1973
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 15, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 15, 1973
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 15, 1973
- Tornado in Illinois, June 15, 1973
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: 10111287, 10111288, 10111289, 10111290.