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Malcolm

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Enjoyer of clouds - Someone once asked if I was a photographer - #BillsMafia - Resident of the Finger Lakes region - 🐦

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Malcolm @ecmalcolm.bsky.social · Oct 17

October 10th was something else.

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Bryant Sell @stormsellwx.bsky.social · 6h

GoPro Timelapse from one year ago today, October 8, 2024. #NorthernLights

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Braydon Morisseau @braydonmoreso.bsky.social · 1d

Supercell near Enderlin, North Dakota while it produced an EF5 tornado. #NDwx

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Braydon Morisseau @braydonmoreso.bsky.social · 1d

Historic EF5 tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota June 20th 2025 #NDwx

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Connor Sipe @paweatherphoto.bsky.social · 1d

A year ago today: catching a supercell and the aurora from northeast Ohio without moving an inch

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 1d

Game-winning touchdown

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty surreal to say I’ve officially documented an EF5 tornado. The first EF5 tornado since Moore 2013.

Enderlin, North Dakota - June 20, 2025.

My digital shot of an EF5 tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota on the night of June 20, 2025.

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Malcolm @ecmalcolm.bsky.social · 2d

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Kaitlyn Jesmonth @wxkaitlynj.bsky.social · 2d

Ah that time of year when you can see lake-effect snow 300+ hours on the GFS is back 🙌

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Simon Brewer @stormgasm.bsky.social · 2d

@JustonStrmRider and I were mesmerized by this incredible supercell structure as the Enderlin, North Dakota EF5 tornado was occurring! This was the first official NWS-assigned EF5 tornado rating since the infamous Moore, Oklahoma Tornado on May 20, 2013. #ndwx

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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 2d

Here it is. The last 10 years of hail events across the U.S. using my prototype hail tracking algorithm!

Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.

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Connell Miller @connellmiller.ca · 2d

Excited to announce that my method for estimating wind speeds based on lofted debris in tornadoes was used as contextual evidence for upgrading the Enderlin, ND tornado to an EF5!

doi.org/10.1175/MWR-...

#NDwx #Enderlin #EF5 #Tornado

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 2d

An EF5 sounding.

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Malcolm @ecmalcolm.bsky.social · 2d

Same day as the Spiritwood tor and that Bismarck derecho.

Malcolm @ecmalcolm.bsky.social · 2d

This nighttime beast. bsky.app/profile/devi...

Devin Pitts @devinwxchase.bsky.social · 2d

Wish I had better shots of it, but it looks like it wasn't a Bridge Creek look-a-like just for show after all.

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Pat Hyland @hylandwx.bsky.social · 2d

This is the first F5/EF5-rated tornado in North Dakota in almost 70 years (last F5/EF5 tornado was the Fargo tornado on June 20, 1957)

Kevin Scharfenberg @wxkev.bsky.social · 2d

The Enderlin, ND tornado from 6/20/25 has been upgraded to EF5.

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IEMBot Grand Forks @fgf.weather.im · 2d

#FGF issues Public Information Statement (PNS) at Oct 6, 9:30 AM CDT ...Enderlin Tornado #1 Upgraded to EF-5... Link

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Devin Pitts @devinwxchase.bsky.social · 2d

Wish I had better shots of it, but it looks like it wasn't a Bridge Creek look-a-like just for show after all.

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Devin Pitts @devinwxchase.bsky.social · 2d

The EF-5 Drought is finally over. mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.ph...

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Malcolm @ecmalcolm.bsky.social · 2d

nifty route from samuel there

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Spencer Dant @sdantwx.bsky.social · 2d

I guess random backyard supercell season really does not ever end

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Simon Brewer @stormgasm.bsky.social · 3d

My first tornado was on October 22, 2000 - I've seen tornadoes every year since, 26 years and counting.
#grateful

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Simon Brewer @stormgasm.bsky.social · 3d

#weatherpicofday
2 mile-diameter megawedge tornado hits the east side of Wayne, Nebraska during a significant Fall outbreak OTD 12 years ago, 4 October 2013. Juston Drake and I documented 3 twisters from this high-end tornado event. #NEwx #IAwx

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Brendon 🐻🌪️❄ @brendonme.bsky.social · 3d

Very scary clouds today

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Trent @trnt.bsky.social · 3d

massive shelf near Walden #COwx

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Northern Tornadoes Project 🇨🇦 @westernuntp.bsky.social · 5d

Today we have a special blog post on a new NTP tool for AI-assisted satellite review, with the method described by its developer - the NTP's Daniel Butt. The tool is being used experimentally and is already producing results. More on that shortly!

uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202...

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XelArtz ∍⧽⧼∊ @xelartz.bsky.social · 5d

The Seymour, TX EF3 tornado from less than a mile away.
we could hear the roar from it, though at the time @zyrax.us and I thought it was the wind rushing thru the wind turbines at the time.
First time hearing a tornado roar, Freight Train my ass. Shit sounded like a jet engine from hell.
#xel;artz

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