After 12 years, the U.S. has its first EF5 tornado. Meteorologist Andrew Stutzke breaks down why this could mean other ...

Meteorologists said this week that a deadly tornado in North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to a top-of-the-scale EF5, and was the first on American soil in 12 years.

Tennessee has dealt with numerous tornadoes. The most notable being the Tornado outbreak on April 16, 1998. The most violent tornado ever reported in Tennessee was in Lawrence County. On that date, a ...

Level 5 is the highest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which the National Weather Service has used to measure tornadoes since 2007. The tornado that wrecked the outskirts of Enderlin, N.D., on ...

Meteorologists say a deadly tornado in North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to a top-of-the-scale EF5, and was the first on American soil in 12 years.

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 ...

For the first time in over a decade, NWS confirmed on Monday that the U.S. has seen an EF-5 tornado. After 12 years, the streak is officially broken. Tornado ratings come from damage assessments done ...

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 ...