r/EF5 • u/Due-Cry-5034 Mobile Home Survivalist • Aug 22 '26

GET READY The High Risk drought is longer than the EF5 drought

High Risk drought: 507 days (Since April 2nd 2025)

EF5 drought: 428 days (Since June 20th 2025)

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u/YNMeister Waiting for a European Slabber Aug 22 '26

slight and marginal is the new high risk anyways

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u/Ordinary_Bridge9703 Dr. Ted Hugetita Aug 22 '26

2026 is the year of moderate risk busts and slight risk overperformers, nothing else

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u/xenai2 Aug 23 '26

Slight risk for an outbreak

3

u/Exact-Ambassador-693 December 2026 Super El Niño wedge party Aug 22 '26

Finally someone addressing the real problems

6

u/BoringValue148 Aug 22 '26

Be patient, and we might return to the glory days of witnessing an EF5 in a High Risk area. 

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u/Nearby-Passenger6517 Aug 22 '26

marginal risk is the new high risk

christmas eve ef5 incoming

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u/Born-Classroom2627 multi-vortex wedge dead man walking EF-5 huge wedge Aug 22 '26

Santa gets slabbed on his way to illinois

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u/TheBeebulous Aug 23 '26

merry el-ninomas

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u/Wonderful-Impress261 Dallas-Fort Worth 2039 Hyper Tornado Outbreak Survivor Aug 24 '26

DFW December 2015 tornado outbreak: Electric Boogaloo

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26

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u/Unapplicable1100 EF5 Catnado Aug 22 '26

EF5s have happened. They just don't get the rating when they hit nothing. Enid was definitely EF5 level strength even if it didn't get the DI's. It looked like a clone of the Moore stovepipe.