Wilmer Reed

🚨#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.