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National Weather Service, Northern Indiana, the April 11th 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak (confirmed-tornado table)
The county was struck that evening — in its south. Clay Township was not touched. The Weather Service's confirmed list for St. Joseph County on 11 April 1965 holds two tracks, both southern: an F3 from northeast of Knox to south of South Bend (35.6 miles, 10 deaths), which destroyed cottages at Koontz Lake and did severe damage near La Paz and Wyatt — the track that struck Lakeville's under-construction high school — and an F4 that touched down in St. Joseph County south of South Bend at 7:10 p.m. and ran northeast to beyond Shipshewana (37 miles, 36 deaths), devastating the Sunnyside and Kingston Heights subdivisions of Dunlap in Elkhart County. No track in the list crosses the county's north; the nearest of them, the Dunlap F4, stands some ten miles from the town in the secondary aggregator's measure. The verdict prints plainly because local tellings inflate: Roseland and Clay Township were not hit on Palm Sunday 1965, on the Weather Service's Fujita-surveyed record; the town's tornado history, on the carriers reached, is an absence — and it is recorded as one rather than filled with the county's dead.