A deadly North Dakota tornado tipped train cars. It’s now considered EF-5
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A June tornado in eastern North Dakota killed three people. This week, the twister was upgraded to an EF-5 rating, making it the strongest on U.S. soil since 2013.
Carl Jones is one of the Grand Forks-based National Weather Service meteorologists behind the new report.
“[The tornado] resulted in pretty widespread and devastating damage to the forest that went through there,” Jones said. “That completely leveled some of these homes.”
But while the damage to homes and trees was extreme, it was the tipped over train cars that gave this storm an EF-5 rating.
Jones spoke with MPR News host Clay Masters about how the tornado rating was calculated months after the initial twister.
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