Tornado, Minnehaha
- When
- August 6, 6:26 PM CST to 6:28 PM CST
- Where
- Minnehaha County, 1 mi S of Colton
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 43.770, -96.930
Tornado in South Dakota, August 6, 1996
A tornado damaged several trees and pushed an unanchored mobile home off of its foundation.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
A tornado damaged several trees and pushed an unanchored mobile home off of its foundation.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 26 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:26 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 6, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 6, 1996
- Tornado in South Dakota, August 6, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 6, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 6, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 6, 1996
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 1996Warnings in South Dakota, August 1996
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: 5566907.