Here are the highest speeds recorded during Colorado’s severe windstorm

While the highest winds were recorded in the mountains and foothills, National Weather Service records show most of the Front ...
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North Dakota EF5 upgrade reignites debate over tornado classifications

MOLINE, Ill. — For the first time in more than a decade, the United States has recorded an EF5 tornado, which is the strongest classification. But the newly confirmed rating may have implications that ...
Dallas Morning News

EF5 tornado that killed 3 in North Dakota was the nation’s first in 12 years

A deadly tornado that tore across southeastern North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to an EF5 with winds topping 200 mph, the strongest classification of tornado and the first confirmed on ...
Las Vegas Sun

EF5 tornadoes — the most powerful classification — rarely occur

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WTHR

Mile-wide tornado that hit North Dakota in June was a monster EF5, the first in 12 years

WASHINGTON — An EF5 tornado struck North Dakota this year, the National Weather Service confirmed Monday, marking the first tornado of that strength in more than a decade on American soil. The ...
Bay News 9

North Dakota tornado from June upgraded to EF5

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Grand Forks, N.D., reevaluated a tornado from June 20, 2025. Completing additional surveys and working extensively with wind damage experts, the new estimated ...