🚨#BREAKING: Officials with the National Weather Service have confirmed the nation’s first EF-5 tornado in over a decade.
📌#Enderlin | #NorthDakota
Officials with the National Weather Service have confirmed the nation’s first EF-5 tornado in more than a decade. After 4,414 days, the NWS has officially upgraded the June 20, 2025, Enderlin, North Dakota tornado to an extremely powerful EF-5, the highest classification on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with estimated wind speeds exceeding 200+ mph. And resulting in three lives. This marks the first EF-5 tornado since the catastrophic Moore, Oklahoma storm on May 20, 2013, which was more than a mile wide and claimed 24 lives The announcement has stunned meteorologists nationwide, with experts calling the Enderlin tornado one of the strongest ever recorded across the Northern Plains.
Honest question. If Gage Larvadain makes this catch, and Shedeur Sanders leads a game-tying drive in his first NFL game (against the Ravens)…would the conversations be different right now?
On this day, 27 years ago, we chased what is well-known as the strongest #tornado in History.
This shows the F5 tornado near peak intensity, just after devastating the community of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma.
Aa freshman meteorology students at OU, we stupidly abandoned our Geo Tracker and took shelter under an overpass. Research was published that overpasses can accelerate the tornadic wind and be even more dangerous.
We then saw the terrible devastation in Moore, Oklahoma with horses wandering down the highway and people emerging from their destroyed homes. Over 50 people lost their lives from the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak.
There was another massive violent tornado with a supercell to the north near Mulhall, Oklahoma that peaked after sunset.
The tornado outbreak was still going when I woke up for class the next morning at 7 am.
This is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. Enjoy the nice weather this May 3,