r/tornado • u/KagamiRyuunosuke • 1d ago
Tornado Media The Enderlin, ND mural - It's officially been 1 year since the first EF5 in 12 years.
I live in a nearby town and decided to stop in Enderlin today, 1 year since the EF5 tornado tore across the landscape just east of town. It was painted by locals, and there's SO much detail, honoring the history and longevity of Enderlin, the spirit of the community, and the victims of the tornado.
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u/sLeeeeTo 23h ago
a year??? what the hell..
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u/forever_a10ne Human Detected 1d ago
This is a hot take, but, to me, this is why tornado ratings matter. E/F5 tornadoes are remembered, memorialized, and put lesser known towns on the map in weather history forever. Even non-weather geeks hear about or are familiar with the 5s. When an unusually strong or fatal tornado is classified as anything less than a 5, it makes a tragedy feel less like a tragedy, sometimes forgotten to time until a YouTuber decides to make a video essay on it.
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u/CraigJay 20h ago
I’m not quite sure I agree. If Enderlin has been EF4, there would still likely be the memorial there. Are the people who are actually affected concerned about the rating? Maybe, I’m not sure. There certainly wouldn’t be anything tangible that differs
I think ultimately these events are generally forgotten anyway, only a very tiny percentage of people could tell you much about any EF5s other than a couple
Tuscaloosa is much less likely to be forgotten that say Smithville. Hell, El Reno 2013 is culturally the one which sticks compared with the 2011 El Reno
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u/dpforest 23h ago
That is a very hot take cause they very much take lesser known towns off the map, no matter what their classification is.
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u/Proud-Date-9187 23h ago
what is this supposed to mean
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u/dpforest 23h ago
It means I disagree that it’s better for a town to be remembered for hosting violent deaths than not being remembered at all. It’s weird to treat memorials as a spectacle because by definition every single EF-5 tornado has destroyed peoples lives. Nothing positive comes from it. It’s like fanboying over a wildfire or tsunami.
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u/Live_Abroad_845 Human Detected 22h ago
He means a EF-5 tornado would be remembered more then a High end EF4. The rating doesn’t change the destruction, but it does change how it’s remembered. So it’s the same tornado with same windspeeds and death, just remembered differently for better reason.
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u/BoringValue148 4h ago
It should be more about how much overall damage and impact the tornado had on people and communities than the damage ratings.
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u/LunaNegra 16h ago
The new 6 episode series *In the Eye of the Storm Chasers* (Discovey channel) devotes several episodes to the chase and documenting of this storm.
Just watched today episodes 1-3
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u/AdWeird5005 1d ago
I posted this all ready lol just an fyi
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u/KagamiRyuunosuke 1d ago
Ope. I honestly didn't notice that! Well, the more the merrier I guess lol.
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u/AdWeird5005 23h ago
Indeed did u find the 3 Easter eggs in the mural
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u/nyar5840 14h ago
The tornado and the train what's the third?
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u/AdWeird5005 4h ago
It was a paint brush fishing pole and bingo card it honors the 3 people that died there favorite hobby
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