Tornado, Perkins
- When
- June 6, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Perkins County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 45.730, -99.630
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 6, 1978
3 tornado, 3 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
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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
3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Hughes
- When
- June 6, 6:55 PM CST
- Where
- Hughes County
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.380, -100.280
Tornado, Sully
- When
- June 6, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sully County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.630, -99.020
Tornado, Edmunds
- When
- June 6, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Edmunds County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.530, -98.830
Thunderstorm Wind, Meade
- When
- June 6, 9:11 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.150, -103.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Haakon
- When
- June 6, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Haakon County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.030, -101.670
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.
- 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 in North Carolina, June 6, 1978
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 6, 1978
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 6, 1978
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 6, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 6, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 6, 1978
- Hail in Colorado, June 6, 1978
- Hail in New Mexico, June 6, 1978
- Hail in Wyoming, June 6, 1978
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: 10113908, 10113909, 10113910, 10113911, 10113912, 10113913.