2025 marks 60 years since most powerful tornado in South Dakota history

2025 marks 60 years since most powerful tornado in South Dakota history

COLOME, S.D. — The most powerful tornado in South Dakota history, which cut through Tripp County Saturday, May 8, 1965 and spun winds over 200 miles per hour, spawned from a storm just south of the border in Nebraska. The weather service issued warnings to the public, urging them to take shelter in storm cellars in the hope they could avoid the destruction that had been wrought to the south, where the reports of damage were heavy. “It got practi…