On August 28, 1884, a tornado outbreak, including a family of least five strong tornadoes, affected portions of the Dakota Territory within present-day South Dakota.

Among them was one of the first known tornadoes to have been photographed, an estimated F4 on the Fujita scale, that occurred near Howard and exhibited multiple vortices.

A sixth tornado also occurred in present-day Davison County.

Contemporary records and survivors' recollections indicate that the storms were F3 or F4 intensity on the Fujita scale,[1][2] but cannot currently be officially verified, as official records begin in 1950.

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