{"id":211633,"date":"2025-10-09T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211633\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:56:07","slug":"discussing-end-of-ef-5-tornado-drought-in-united-states-on-the-first-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211633\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing end of EF-5 tornado drought in United States on \u2018The First Alert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; The United States has had its first EF-5 tornado in more than a decade, the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The twister in North Dakota actually touched down on June 20, but evidence and wind speed estimates led weather officials to upgrade it to the rare EF-5 status on Monday, Oct. 6. It was the first EF-5 since one ripped through Oklahoma in May 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The North Dakota twister left three people dead and reached wind speeds of at least 200 mph, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Back home in the Carolinas, things are much calmer. This weekend is shaping up to be a cool, fall weekend with temperatures in the low to mid-70s with low rain chances in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meteorologists Al Conklin and Eric Garlick have it all on this episode of \u201cThe First Alert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2024\/06\/28\/watch-all-episodes-wbtvs-streaming-weather-show-first-alert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch all episodes of \u201cThe First Alert\u201d here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Oct. 9 episode can be watched live in the top of this story at approximately 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; The United States has had its first EF-5 tornado in more than a decade,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2954,23,15895,15755,120664,120665,9032,11315,22074,21334,2255,16906,3,2256,2807,24338,14133,23640,5614,7382,1596,96653,51357,21,19,22,20,14511,120666,25,24,12531,120663,2986,43832,69073,21676],"class_list":["post-211633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2954","tag-america","tag-chance","tag-charlotte","tag-ef","tag-ef-5","tag-first-alert","tag-forecast","tag-hit","tag-how-to","tag-nc","tag-nd","tag-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-north-dakota","tag-rain","tag-sc","tag-show","tag-south-carolina","tag-streaming","tag-the","tag-tornado","tag-twister","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-upgrade","tag-upgraded","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-watch","tag-wbtv","tag-weather","tag-weekend","tag-when","tag-where"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}