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Enderlin tornado upgraded to EF-5 after extensive review
The Enderlin tornado #1 from June 20, 2025 has officially been upgraded to an EF-5 from the National Weather Service of Grand Forks. This comes after further extensive review including forensic damage wind speed estimates.
The original preliminary rating of the tornado was an EF-4 with estimated peak winds of 180 mph, but that was subject to further review. Upon further review, the estimated peak winds were at least 210 mph. Evidence examined included several fully-loaded grain hopper cars that were toppled over, and the lofting of tanker cars, including one empty tanker car that was tossed about 475.5 feet, according to the National Weather Service. Damage to trees near the Maple River east of Enderlin was also reanalyzed and found that root balls were displaced. The NWS says that the new peak wind estimate also more closely correlates to the storm-relative velocity data from the radar. The tornado had a path just over 12 miles long.
Enderlin tornado that killed 3 people reclassified as EF-5
ENDERLIN, N.D. — A
tornado
that killed three people this summer in southeast North Dakota has been reclassified EF-5, the most damaging level for a twister.
The June 20 tornado that destroyed at least two homes, damaged other buildings and derailed a train near Enderlin reached speeds that exceeded 210 mph, the National Weather Service announced Monday, Oct. 6. The minimum speed for an EF-5 tornado is 201 mph.
Initially classified as EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, the Enderlin tornado was one of multiple tornadoes that storms produced June 20. The Enderlin tornado traveled 12 miles and was a mile wide, according to the National Weather Service.
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A tornado in North Dakota was first with EF5 classification in a dozen years, weather service says
A deadly tornado that tore across southeastern North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to an EF5 with winds topping 200 mph (322 kph), the strongest classification of tornado and the first on American soil in 12 years, meteorologists said Monday.
The June 20 twister in Enderlin caused significant damage and killed three people. At its largest, the tornado was 1.05 miles wide (1.69 kilometers) and carved a path across the prairie for just over 12 miles (19 kilometers).
Meteorologists from the National Weather Service office in Grand Forks estimated the tornado's winds reached 210 mph (338 kph), according to the newly released analysis. The 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado in Oklahoma holds the record of the strongest winds ever recorded at 321 mph (517 kph).
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