Tornadoes · United States · Minnesota · 2014

EF0 tornado, Chandler, Minnesota, June 5, 2014

Name: EF0 tornado, Chandler, Minnesota, June 5, 2014
Start: 2014-06-05T23:49:00.000Z
End: 2014-06-05T23:50:00.000Z
Location: Chandler, Minnesota

This EF0 tornado ran 0.3 miles across Murray County on June 5, 2014, touching down at 6:49 PM CDT and reaching 50 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: EF0
Date: June 5, 2014
Touchdown: 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
Lifted: 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
On the ground: 1 minutes
Path length: 0.3 miles (0.5 km)
Path width: 50 yards (46 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Murray County
Touchdown point: 43.920, -95.940
Lift-off point: 43.918, -95.935
Record number: 1406051749-01

What the Weather Service recorded

Thunderstorms produced marginally large hail and two tornadoes in southwest Minnesota during the afternoon and early evening of June 5th.

A brief tornado caused no reported damage.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 21:57 UTC and running to 02:21 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
21:57 UTC	02:21 UTC	Tornado Watch	FSD
23:39 UTC	23:58 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 21:25 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 5, 6:22 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:22 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
622 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

.UPDATE...
ISSUED AT 613 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

DUE TO ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER THE UPDATED AFD WILL BE DELAYED
UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING. UPDATED AVIATION SECTION BELOW.

&&

.SHORT TERM...(TODAY AND TONIGHT)
ISSUED AT 352 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH DIGGING INTO EASTERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH
DAKOTA EARLY THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE A GRADUAL TREK WEST
TO EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA MID MORNING THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON.
THE REMNANTS OF EARLIER CONVECTION ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF SD AND
NEBRASKA CONTINUE TO WEAKEN THIS MORNING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING
AND MOVEMENT INTO POOR MOISTURE AND SUBSIDENCE AHEAD OF THE TROUGH.
EXPECT LIGHT RAINFALL CHANCES TO WANE THROUGH SUNRISE AND MID
MORNING. DAYTIME HEATING AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHORTWAVE SHOULD
ALLOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP ACROSS MAINLY EAST OF
THE JAMES RIVER MID TO LATE MORNING. MODEL SOUNDINGS DEVELOP A THIN
AREA OF ELEVATED CAPE AS HIGH AS 1500 J/KG LATE MORNING AND
AFTERNOON WITH MODEST TO MODERATE SPEED SHEAR. OVERALL THREAT FOR
SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW...BUT COULD SEE A CELL OR TO REACH NEAR SEVERE
LEVELS...MAINLY ALONG THE I-29 CORRIDOR INTO SW MN AND FAR NW IA.
MAIN THREAT WILL BE DIME OR SMALLER HAIL AND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS DO NOT LOOK NEARLY AS SUBSTANTIAL AS RECENT
EVENTS...BUT COULD SEE UP TO A QUARTER OR HALF INCH UNDER HEAVIER
STORMS. OUR FAR SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES WILL LARGELY REMAIN DRY WITH
THIS SYSTEM AS DRIER PROFILES WILL QUICKLY DIMINISH PRECIPITATION AS
THE WAVE SHIFTS INTO OUR FAR EAST THIS AFTERNOON.

HIGHS WILL BE TRICKY TO PINPOINT WITH CLOUD COVER BEING THE BIGGEST
CONCERN. COULD SEE SOUTH CENTRAL SD BREAK OUT OF THE CLOUDS THIS
AFTERNOON...AFFORDING THE BEST OPPORTUNITY TO REACH THE UPPER 70S
AND NEAR 80...SO DID RAISE HIGHS A FEW DEGREES HERE. FURTHER
EAST...CLOUDS WILL HOLD HIGHS MAINLY IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S.
PRECIPITATION WILL QUICKLY COME TO AN END BY EARLY EVENING WITH
CLEARING EXPANDING FROM WEST TO EAST. WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT
OVERNIGHT AFFORDING A COOLER NIGHT THAN THIS MORNING. LOWS WILL DROP
INTO THE MID TO UPPER 50S.

.LONG TERM...(FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)
ISSUED AT 352 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA ON FRIDAY. HOWEVER LOOKS LIKE WE
WILL STAY ON THE WARM SIDE OF THE BOUNDARY FOR MUCH OF THE DAY WITH
MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND PRETTY GOOD WARMING. THUS WENT AHEAD AND
BUMPED HIGH TEMPERATURES UP A FEW DEGREES...RANGING FROM THE 70S
OVER THE NORTHWEST TO THE LOW AND MID 80S OVER NORTHWEST IOWA. THINK
MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL STAY PRETTY CLOSE TO THE
SOUTHEASTWARD MOVING BOUNDARY...WITH THE WARM SECTOR REMAINING
CAPPED. NAM IS A FAST OUTLIER WITH THE BOUNDARY...AND THUS MOVES
CONVECTION IN QUICKER DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. TRENDED TOWARDS
THE SLOWER ECMWF AND GEM AND THUS SLOWED DOWN POPS...BUT EXACT
TIMING STILL UNCERTAIN. GENERALLY LOOKING AT CAPE AROUND 1500 J/KG
AND DEEP LAYER SHEAR OF 20 TO 30 KTS. NEITHER TOO
IMPRESSIVE...HOWEVER PROBABLY ENOUGH THAT WHEN COMBINED WITH THE
FRONTAL FORCING WE COULD SEE SOME MULTICELL ORGANIZATION. SO WHILE
SEVERE THREAT SHOULD REMAIN LOW...THE SPC 5% OUTLOOK SEEMS
REASONABLE...AS CAN NOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORM
OR TWO DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG AND NEAR THE
BOUNDARY...MOST LIKELY WEST OF INTERSTATE 29. AS THE BETTER FORCING
FROM THE UPPER WAVE MOVES ACROSS OVERNIGHT AND INTERACTS WITH THE
BOUNDARY...LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS
OVER MOST OF THE CWA. ENOUGH ELEVATED INSTABILITY FOR THUNDER...BUT
WOULD NOT EXPECT ANYTHING TOO STRONG OVERNIGHT.

THE WEEKEND LOOKS COOL BEHIND THIS FRONT...WITH HIGHS ONLY IN THE
60S TO LOW 70S. WILL PROBABLY HAVE SOME LINGERING SHOWERS AND A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY...AS THE UPPER FORCING CONTINUES TO PUSH
ACROSS. ANOTHER WAVE WILL THEN PUSH THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS
LATER SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. SO OVERALL THINK SUNDAY WILL
GENERALLY BE DRY...BUT SHOWER CHANCES WILL INCREASE OVERNIGHT. THIS
WAVE WILL BE DEALING WITH SOME DRIER AIR TO THE NORTH...SO SEEMS
LIKE BEST PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL STAY ALONG AND SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 90. NOT MUCH ELEVATED INSTABILITY...BUT MAYBE ENOUGH TO
GET SOME THUNDER.

POSSIBLY SOME LINGERING MORNING SHOWERS IN THE SOUTHEAST ON
MONDAY...OTHERWISE GENERALLY EXPECTING NEXT WEEK TO START OUT DRY.
WILL ALSO SEE A WARMING TREND AS RIDGING BEGINS TO BUILD INTO THE
AREA. LOOKING AT LOW TO MID 70S ON MONDAY...AND THEN MID 70S TO
AROUND 80 BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. MODELS BEGIN TO DIVERGE BY
TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. BUT OVERALL LOOKS LIKE SOME ENERGY
WILL ATTEMPT TO MOVE BACK INTO THE PLAINS...WITH SOME INSTABILITY
RETUNING AS WELL. THUS WOULD SEEM LIKE THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES WOULD BEGIN TO PICK UP AGAIN BY WEDNESDAY.

&&

.AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z FRIDAY EVENING)
ISSUED AT 613 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF INTERSTATE 29 WILL COME TO AN END
BY MID EVENING...OTHERWISE...WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE
OVERNIGHT...AND CANNOT RULE OUT SOME PATCHY FOG DEVELOPMENT IN
LOCALES THAT RECEIVED THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY
THEN AGAIN MOVE INTO THE AREA TOWARD THE END OF THE TAF PERIOD.

&&

.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
MN...NONE.
IA...NONE.
NE...NONE.
&&

UPDATE...JM
SHORT TERM...
LONG TERM...CHENARD
AVIATION...JM

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 4:49 AM CDT, 14 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
449 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-
098-NEZ013-014-SDZ040-055-056-062-066-067-070-071-061000-
LYON-OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-SIOUX-OBRIEN-CLAY-PLYMOUTH-CHEROKEE-
BUENA VISTA-WOODBURY-IDA-LINCOLN-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-NOBLES-JACKSON-
PIPESTONE-ROCK-DIXON-DAKOTA-BROOKINGS-LAKE-MOODY-MINNEHAHA-TURNER-
UNION-
449 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST
IOWA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...EAST CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM
LATE MORNING INTO MID AFTERNOON. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS
LOW...ALTHOUGH A FEW STRONGER STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...WITH DIME SIZE
HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO
SATURDAY. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL REMAIN LOW. ALTHOUGH A FEW
STRONG TO NEAR SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY.

SDZ038-039-050-052>054-057>061-063>065-068-069-061000-
BEADLE-KINGSBURY-GREGORY-JERAULD-SANBORN-MINER-BRULE-AURORA-
DAVISON-HANSON-MCCOOK-CHARLES MIX-DOUGLAS-HUTCHINSON-BON HOMME-
YANKTON-
449 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH
DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO
SATURDAY. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL REMAIN LOW. ALTHOUGH A FEW
STRONG TO NEAR SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
532 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0532 PM     HAIL             1 S SIOUX CENTER        43.06N 96.17W
06/05/2014  E0.50 INCH       SIOUX              IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

MG

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
536 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     HAIL             1 S SIOUX CENTER        43.06N 96.17W
06/05/2014  E0.50 INCH       SIOUX              IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PEA TO MARBLE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND

&&

MG

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
540 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0538 PM     HAIL             LUVERNE                 43.65N 96.21W
06/05/2014  E1.00 INCH       ROCK               MN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PS

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
548 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0542 PM     HAIL             5 SE MARSHALL           44.40N 95.72W
06/05/2014  E1.00 INCH       LYON               MN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

MG

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:57 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
557 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     HAIL             5 E IVANHOE             44.46N 96.15W
06/05/2014  E1.00 INCH       LINCOLN            MN   PUBLIC

&&

PS

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:20 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
620 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0618 PM     HAIL             RUSSELL                 44.32N 95.95W
06/05/2014  E0.50 INCH       LYON               MN   PUBLIC

&&

ADAMS

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), 12:00Z

11.8 hours before the tornado, 213 km from the path. June 5, 2014.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0
0-3 km lapse rate: 4.8 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), 00:00Z

0.2 hours after it, 213 km from the path. June 6, 2014.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89477 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1
0-3 km lapse rate: 6.9 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

Slayton (DVP), 15 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
21:54 UTC	66.56	63	140° 9 kt		1011.5
22:14 UTC	66.74	63	150° 12 kt		1011.9
22:34 UTC	68.36	63.68	150° 14 kt		1011.9
22:54 UTC	68	62	150° 14 kt		1011.5
23:14 UTC	67.28	62	150° 12 kt		1011.5
23:34 UTC	66.56	62.24	160° 11 kt		1011.5	VCTS
23:54 UTC	66.2	62.42	140° 11 kt		1011.5	VCTS
00:14 UTC	66	62.6	140° 8 kt		1011.9	-RA
00:34 UTC	64	61.88	50° 8 kt	16	1012.5	+VCTSRA
00:54 UTC	64	62.6	60° 8 kt		1012.2	-TSRA
01:14 UTC	64.76	62	110° 8 kt		1012.2	VCTS
01:34 UTC	64.4	62.24	160° 8 kt		1011.9

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:48 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
21:33 UTC	HAIL 1.75	7 S Jasper	Rock, MN
21:55 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	5 N Beaver Creek	Rock, MN
21:55 UTC	HAIL 0.5	3 N Luverne	Rock, MN	MARBLE HAIL REPORTED AT BLUE MOUNDS STATE PARK
22:05 UTC	TORNADO	7 Wnw Luverne	Rock, MN
22:07 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	Beaver Creek	Rock, MN	MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
22:38 UTC	HAIL 1	Luverne	Rock, MN
22:42 UTC	HAIL 1	5 Se Marshall	Lyon, MN
23:18 UTC	HAIL 0.5	Russell	Lyon, MN

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

This ground now

The live radar over the track Every 2014 tornado in Minnesota Every tornado in Minnesota since 1950 Warnings in force in Minnesota now The forecast where you are

The other tornadoes of June 5, 2014

9 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 5	2:14 PM CDT	EF0	Minnehaha, SD	0.2	50
June 5	2:51 PM CDT	EF1	Thurston, NE	1.5	100
June 5	3:40 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln, SD	0.4	50
June 5	4:25 PM CDT	EF0	Sargent, ND	0.1	10
June 5	4:34 PM CDT	EF1	Limestone, AL	0.7	100
June 5	5:02 PM CDT	EF0	Cass, ND	0.1	10
June 5	5:05 PM CDT	EF0	Rock, MN	0.3	50
June 5	7:21 PM EDT	EF0	Gilmer, GA	0.8	50	$50,000
June 5	8:07 PM MDT	EF0	Bent, CO	0.4	50

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.