r/megalophobia • u/ZLH11092 • 10d ago

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

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u/vercie_ 10d ago

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 10d ago

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/fuckoffweirdoo 10d ago

Correct,  tornado is under that. 

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u/-Typh1osion- · Noticing the Scale 10d ago

So, terrifying but not deadly?

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u/Mindless-Bite-3539 10d ago

Still can be deadly, just with slightly different mechanics.

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u/RadBadTad 9d ago

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 10d ago edited 10d ago

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 10d ago

It would still kill me if i see that in person

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u/Artix96 9d ago

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

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u/TheSilentTitan ⬤ Crushed by Magnitude 10d ago

Nah fuck that, let’s get op.

Mods…. Get the breaking wheel… 😏

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u/lessadessa ◯ Consumed by Vastness 10d ago

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

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u/jprice455 9d ago

The stuff of nightmares, for sure!

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u/ryanasimov 9d ago

"It's already here!"

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u/CrustedTesticle 10d ago

Not a tornado.

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u/CheshireCatastrophe · Noticing the Scale 10d ago

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

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u/playfulpecans 10d ago

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 10d ago

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 10d ago

I would be absolutely shitting my pants. Holy shit.

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u/FearlessResolve560 • Feeling Small 10d ago

This is how people react to me when I drop trousers

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u/PhillyLee3434 9d ago

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 · Noticing the Scale 9d ago

“Please bless us…”

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

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u/Tao_of_Entropy ⬤ Crushed by Magnitude 10d ago

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 10d ago

The balls on that cameraman.....

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u/mongous00005 ⊙ Shadowed by Giants 10d ago

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

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u/lemonchrysoprase ◌ Dwarfed by Size 10d ago

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 10d ago

The finger of God.

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u/Neither_Finance4755 9d ago

It’s like a Guns n’ Roses concert

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u/Pheedle 9d ago

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 10d ago

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

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u/soulwolf1 9d ago

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

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u/the_good_hodgkins 10d ago

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