Debris from the empty foundations was strewn over the surface of the lake and deposited in a small cove. My siblings and I were outside with football helmets on picking up hailstones as . Tornado statistics for older years like this often appear significantly lower than modern years due to fewer reports or confirmed tornadoes. Unless otherwise noted, the source of the F5 rating is the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), as shown in the archives of the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Palm Sunday 1965 was an unusually warm day in the Midwest, with temperatures jumping into the 70's. Contact us here! The photographs captured the evolution of the storm into twin funnels as it struck the trailer park, with each funnel gyrating around a central point yet only producing onedamage swath. 03 Mar 2023 13:47:12 At about 7:28p.m. CDT (00:28UTC), the new, rapidly strengthening tornado hit Russiaville, causing severe damage to the entire community. Respondents to a post-event survey noted that they confused tornado warnings with tornado forecasts; in turn, this contributed to the high death toll on April 1112. As Huffman awaited the storm, he noticed the tornado approaching from the southwest, so he began taking a series of photographs, sixin all. The local dance pavilion on Devils Lake was demolished, having recently been rebuilt after a fire on Labor Day in 1963. The Indiana National Guard patrolled the streets. A wide outbreak of 37 tornadoes killed 256 people, mostly in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana on Palm Sunday 1965. The death toll climbed hour after hour. Spoon wrapped around tree branch! 100 homes destroyed. A blacktop road in Michigan was rolled back as is if it were a rug. This is the fourth-deadliest day for tornadoes on record, trailing April3, 1974 (310deaths), the April27, 2011 (324), and March18, 1925 (747, including 695by the Tri-State Tornado). Tornadoes in South Dakota (1965) | argusleader.com One person was killed in an F-1 tornado that formed in Allegan County and moved into Barry County. Areas near Pratt, Kansas were struck by an F3 tornado, just one of nine significant tornadoes during the event. [24] Pivotal to those clarifications was a meeting in the WMT Station's studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. The tornado created about $15 million in damage. Initially narrow, the tornado subsequently and rapidly widened to 1,300 feet (400m). 1966 Jackson MS 16 May 8, 1965 Gregory SD 15 May 5, 1964 Bradshaw NE 14 April 3, 1964 Wichita Falls TX 13 May 5, 1960 Prague OK 12 June 4, 1958 Menomonie WI 11 December 18, 1957 Sunfield IL 10 June 20, 1957 Fargo .