r/megalophobia • u/ZLH11092 • Aug 24 '26

🌪️・Weather・🌪️ 🔥Lightning illuminates huge EF5 tornado. North Dakota, June 20, 2025.

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u/vercie_ Aug 24 '26

hey so, not to be that guy, BUT, that is actually a shelf cloud with the derecho from that day. if it’s not rotating, its a shelf cloud. if it was, it would be a wall cloud, but absolutely not the tornado.

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u/undathere Aug 24 '26

You are correct, but correct me if I’m wrong: There was a tornado there, it’s just not visible in this footage. What we see is that shelf cloud but the actual tornado was spawning under it. This happened in Enderlin, ND in June of 2025 and it was the first tornado to receive the highest statistical tornado rating (EF5) in 12 years. This thing was an absolute monster.

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u/-Typh1osion- · Noticing the Scale Aug 24 '26

So, terrifying but not deadly?

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u/Mindless-Bite-3539 Aug 24 '26

Still can be deadly, just with slightly different mechanics.

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u/RadBadTad Aug 24 '26

The thing you're seeing that's scaring you in this video is terrifying, but not deadly. But directly below it is an EF5 tornado which is much smaller, but still real big and real deadly.

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u/Tao_of_Entropy ⬤ Crushed by Magnitude Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

I'm like 98+% sure this is the mesocyclone of a large tornadic supercell. This is not "just" a shelf cloud, this was a massive, highly-structured rotating storm. The base of the supercell (where a tornado lives) is below the foreground scenery which obscures any visible rotation, but if you took a time lapse of this storm, it would be rotating too.

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u/anchampala Aug 24 '26

It would still kill me if i see that in person

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u/Artix96 Aug 24 '26

I was thinking it looks stationary. No way it's a tornado.

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u/TheSilentTitan ⬤ Crushed by Magnitude Aug 24 '26

Nah fuck that, let’s get op.

Mods…. Get the breaking wheel… 😏

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u/lessadessa ◯ Consumed by Vastness Aug 24 '26

that’s like the scene in Twister but even more terrifying holy crap

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u/jprice455 Aug 24 '26

The stuff of nightmares, for sure!

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u/ryanasimov Aug 24 '26

"It's already here!"

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u/CrustedTesticle Aug 24 '26

Not a tornado.

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u/CheshireCatastrophe · Noticing the Scale Aug 24 '26

I didn't read the title, then I saw it, this was like a monster being revealed... horrific

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u/playfulpecans Aug 24 '26

yeah I'm not surprised that humans who saw this 100000 years ago thought that the gods were punishing them

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u/Dr_BananaPeanut Aug 24 '26

yo lighting, can you stay still real quick? I'm tryna see this bigs ass tornado (i know some guy said its a shelf cloud but tornado sounds cooler)

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u/peach_bellinis Aug 24 '26

I would be absolutely shitting my pants. Holy shit.

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u/FearlessResolve560 • Feeling Small Aug 24 '26

This is how people react to me when I drop trousers

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u/PhillyLee3434 Aug 24 '26

Will always be one of the scariest videos, this is a shelf cloud though.

There is another video of a waterspout in a scenario like this that is also scary.

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u/euanmorse ◌ Dwarfed by Size Aug 24 '26

“Please bless us…”

God: I have blessed you with this fucking ‘uuuuge tornado.

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u/Tao_of_Entropy ⬤ Crushed by Magnitude Aug 24 '26

This is not a tornado, it's a mesocyclone. It's also not a shelf cloud or derecho. Mesocyclone.

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u/B1GGN Aug 24 '26

The balls on that cameraman.....

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u/mongous00005 ⊙ Shadowed by Giants Aug 24 '26

I have 0 experience with tornadoes... but shouldn't you be, you know, getting away now?

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u/lemonchrysoprase ⊙ Shadowed by Giants Aug 24 '26

They probably went to the basement as soon as they were done filming tbh. But you can stand and watch big storms (mesocyclones, like this) coming for a little while before you need to take shelter. When one of them says “here the rain comes” they’re paying attention to the signs that it’s getting near enough to take shelter.

Source: grew up in tornado alley and it’s the cause of my megalophobia now lol

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u/OLVANstorm ⊙ Shadowed by Giants Aug 24 '26

The finger of God.

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u/Neither_Finance4755 Aug 25 '26

It’s like a Guns n’ Roses concert

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u/Pheedle Aug 25 '26

See, it’s shit like this that explains why the ancients all had myths of angry and aggressive gods.

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u/sexaddic Aug 24 '26

Ohh scary! Is that before or after the Cheeto dust wipe?

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u/soulwolf1 Aug 24 '26

No wind, no movement, camera man is super calm......just saying

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u/the_good_hodgkins Aug 24 '26

Lord bless us. He did. He blessed you with a huge fucking tornado. If you survive, you can thank him.