After the National Weather Service conducted new surveys on a powerful tornado that struck Enderlin, North Dakota, on June 20, they upgraded the twister to an EF-5 rating this week. Underscoring just how rare a tornado of that power is, the Enderlin tornado is the first EF-5 since 2013. It takes winds of 200 mph or greater to get that classification.
This mile-wide tornado in Enderlin, North Dakota, on June 20 ended the 12-year ‘drought’ of EF5 tornadoes. https://t.co/JA23t0kzYS pic.twitter.com/M6pcX2fSxC
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“The estimated maximum wind speed of the Enderlin, ND tornado #1 is greater than 210 mph and occurred during the time of the train derailment south of Enderlin, ND,” meteorologists with the National Weather Service office in Grand Forks noted on their updated survey of the tornado. “The…more
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