Tornadoes can persist and intensify when a 'nudger cell' (a secondary thunderstorm cell) merges with the main tornado-producing storm, causing the tornado to spin up more violently. When a tornado fails to occlude (merge with the nudger cell), it can remain on the ground for extended periods, causing widespread damage. The Enid tornado on April 23, 2026, demonstrated this phenomenon by attempting to occlude three times but failing each attempt, resulting in prolonged ground-level tornado activity with significant damage to homes, infrastructure, and the surrounding community.
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Enid OK Tornado 4-23-2026Added:
It's beautiful. All right, give me a minute. All right, I'm live. I'm live on it. Okay, look at the motion on the right. The motion on this thing is incredible. Hold on, let me switch what I'm sharing. I'm going to I'm I'm going to stop the stream for a second. I'm going to stop the stream. I'm going to get I'm going to put it right back up.
I'm going to put it right back up.
Oh, this is bad. This is >> Yeah, this is a bad deal. This is the I never I can't believe it.
It's heading right for an airport, right? It hit Vance Air Force Base directly. That damage was in the Air Force Base.
This is really, really bad. Hit the Air Force Base. Hold on, let me get the screen back up. There it is. All right, the motion is incredible. It's a violent, violent cone, tube. I really can't believe what I'm looking at cuz it's It's uh okay.
Uh we got a new >> This is heading towards Enid Woodring Municipal Airport in she. Yep. There are homes in front of it, by the way.
It was going to be There's Dude, that that was home damage. The The The debris ball is incredible. It's hitting homes.
It's lofting to the north Oh, it's going towards Enid. It's Oh, it's very tight.
Going to hit another It's going to hit another area with a lot of homes.
I'm live. Can you not Am I not live? Am I not streaming my screen? Yeah, you're live. Dude, look at the debris ball.
The debris I got I got you. The stream is like Look at Look at this debris ball.
Don't Put the stream up. Put the stream up. Put the video stream I sent up.
Okay, it looks like So, there's the velocity signature. Why you Can you show the like and off the Air Force Base grounds. Where Where's the stream? Where do you put it?
Daniel Shaw has a stream going up right now. I can't get nothing to work.
Nothing's loading. Nothing's going through. This is a violent cone. It's a violent cone.
Yeah, Damon.
>> Look in the VC chat.
Is this from Daniel Shaw's like stream or whatever?
Just as Ty Simpson gets drafted by the Rams. We don't care about football right now, dude.
Just as Ty Simpson gets drafted by the Rams. Oh my god.
Um do we have any storm cases on this?
Oh, they are Brett Adair is making his way fast that way. Look at the beaver tail on this thing.
>> [cough] >> Look at the beaver tail on the end of this thing.
Did this happen because of a nudger?
I I think there was a cell that bumped into the back of it.
Which caused it to spin up.
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what happened.
The cell latches onto the back of it and it exploded.
Wow.
News 9 has a helicopter in the air. This is This is a I wouldn't I I am at a loss for words.
I am at a loss for words. I am Oh my god. I'm assuming if they're in the air, they're like miles away.
I'm [Β __Β ] up so I'm going to see if I can find News 9.
Still Still very broad rotation on this.
It is a big cone.
Yeah, it's it's a big cone. Oh, there's a storm chaser right in front of this thing.
Daniel J. Shaw. Yeah. Yeah, look in Look at Look in VC chat.
It's related to me, by the way. I'll be back. Look in general VC chat right now.
That is from uh Shaw's uh thing.
Holy cow.
a lot of debris. A lot of debris up high in this storm. Up high, 18,000 ft. We are picking up debris 18 ft into the storm right here.
>> This is evil. This thing is evil.
It is This is one of the worst tornadoes I've ever seen.
Like I I like watched live.
I mean, you saw Oh, no.
Dude, it looks like Hold on. Hold on.
Hold on. Where is it? Um The Black Friday F5.
Yeah, I watched Enderwin live, but this one's a extreme loss for life. Look at the Look at the side-by-side comparison here.
That's one thing we have noticed, how slow this one is moving.
You know that was F4.
CBS. Um okay, news debris It looks like it's getting smaller by the minute now.
Yeah, it is.
It's still very much on the ground, but I think it's gotten significantly uh thinner.
Yeah, we got to Yeah, this is We got to watch this cell.
Yeah, it should cuz this is a dead extremely deadly or extremely dangerous tornado to watch.
>> it might have just lifted.
It's I think it It has not lifted. It's still on the ground, guys. Come on. It's still on the ground. I see a little bit of debris. There's still Max Velocity has Look at this debris ball. This is lofting debris well over. We got to watch Oh my god, I can't believe that huge grinder, maxi grinder tornado.
Dude, this It's hard It looks like it's occluding.
It is. It's occluding to the north.
Yeah, it's occluding to the north near Enid.
That nudger cell that um came in from behind that actually spun this up. We'll say it just smothered it.
It just cycled.
What do you mean just cycled?
How is Daniel Shaw's feed Oh, Shaw got major damage. Major damage.
Can you send screenshots of the damage that you're getting? It just go to Shaw's stream. He's got major big time problems.
Oh.
What's his name? Daniel Shaw.
All right, it's lifting. It might try and cycle. We got to watch the cycle here, guys.
But it's not It's still got It's really not cleaned out the inflow. That's what I mean by cycling.
Yeah, um if if we can get a photo It's still on the ground. It's still on the ground.
Max has it on the ground.
Where's Max's stream?
Um okay, it's a stovepipe. This is a big stovepipe. Yep, Max has it It's on the ground. Huge big stovepipe on this thing.
I'm going to just keep it on Max here.
Oh oh oh oh.
It's a failed occlusion on it. It failed to occlude.
Failed occlusion on this Yeah, y'all We got going. We got people talking over each other here.
Failed to occlude and And that's why That's how it's still ongoing.
It's still Yeah, still ongoing. Failed to occlude. That's why it's still ongoing. The velocity is not as strong though, I will say that. It's curving to the north. Holy crap.
It's still violent. It's still violent at the surface. This velocity is not really giving you a full picture. That thing is still extremely strong. It's kind of detaching from the mesocyclone.
There's extreme low-level curvature.
This thing is still spinning extremely It's It's spinning extremely whipping.
What are you watching? What stream are you watching?
Oh, Scott Peak. Velocity Velocity's are back stronger now. That That guy That guy got to move. This guy right in the path of this thing. He's got to move.
Yeah, Scott Peak's driving towards it.
No, that's not Scott Peak. There's someone else. Let me put up Scott Peak.
Scott It's right Oh, Scott Peak's right by it. Scott Peak's the guy that Connor has or Max has.
He's got to move, man.
Look at the motion. Look at the motion on this thing at the bottom.
Oh, there's a house off to the right with I'm looking for damage right now cuz this inflow is damage. We don't like I You really got to be careful here, man.
Scott's got to be careful.
Scott needs to turn around. You don't need to be this close. I'm telling him.
Oh, Daniel Shaw major damage.
Oh, it's bad. It's um Hold up. Violent damage on Daniel Shaw's feed. Yeah, Daniel Shaw's got big time damage. Big time problems. We're going to stick on this stream though. We'll look at that later. Was the Was the road cracked right there? This thing is This thing looks like the 2013 Moore F5, man. I can't believe the dust that's Well, he needs to, dude. I don't know why he got that close.
Yeah, I know.
The base is thinning out. The It's a drill bit.
How is this still going, man? This is crazy.
We went from just chilling to this. Look at Look at this Look at this video.
The video on my stream.
It's the most violent tornado I've never seen a tornado where I can confirm this quickly it's violent. Scott just lost his stream, I think. No, it's still going. Uh it Yeah, this isn't the drill bit now. Shaw's got major damage. Shaw's got big time problems. Whole neighborhood level wherever Shaw's at.
This is bad. Wherever Daniel Shaw is at, there's a whole neighborhood gone.
Okay, he's yeah, this is probably going to be public emergency.
Well, it is. This thing is very narrow.
It's going to it's getting really close to these neighborhoods, guys. It's about to cross whatever road goes right through Enid. I I don't got a map up.
Yeah. What's the road that goes through Enid?
64, highway 60.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
There's a hay bale. There's a huge hay bale in the road right here. Yeah, he's going to get stuck. This thing's getting so close to these neighborhoods. This is a really bad situation here, guys. Even if it doesn't directly hit them, it's a really deadly dangerous situation. Major coordinator here. Oh my god, man.
Put the forward to it. Hold on. I can't believe Look at the motion on this thing. Scott Peak is getting some incredible footage right now. Uh 16th.
Incredible footage, but he's in grave danger. Oh, I think Woah. It might be lifting. It's not lifting though. It's still got that dust circulation. I can't believe Yeah, look at this. There's a There's an inner vortex on this thing. It looks like Gary. It looks like it's re-condensing. It's still Yeah, you saw that inner vortex there, right?
When it kind of un-condensed. Yeah, Scott's probably getting some actual good footage right now and it's It It got way thinner.
This is This is like This is a shape shifter.
I I think it just became a direct merger.
It's It's sitting in one place for a while.
Oh, it's moving. It's moving his way. He need He needs to go. He needs to go now.
Oh, it just hit something. It just hit something huge. Oh my gosh. It just hit a home. It just hit a home. There's so much debris.
It just hit a home right in front of him. I don't know if you saw that. It It just got so much more dust on it. It just hit a home right in front of him.
Oh my Man, this It's going to get a big debris ball again right here cuz it just hit a home.
It I think they Tornado emergency reissued.
I saw the house.
>> Yeah, I did too. That's a bad That's bad.
It just right in front of him. He's going to be in big time damage here in a second.
Yeah, this is a bad deal. It's hitting a lot of people even if it's not Oh my god, it's going to go right in between the airport and the college.
Hopefully.
>> Oh my god, this is really bad.
This is That doesn't sound good. He's got to be careful, man. He's going to get rolled by RFD if he's not careful. This thing probably has huge RFD going into it right now.
Yeah, this cell This cell on the back Yeah, Shaw still got it. I'm switching over to Shaw. Um Daniel Shaw's The Dude, okay.
Crazy.
Crazy. The This cell is getting sucked into the where the tornado is. Yeah, I know. The inflow is that Just stick up Shaw. I'm switching to Shaw cuz Shaw still got it on his camera. It's getting dark. He's got a lot of Wow.
It's only 8:00 p.m. here and it looks like midnight. Well, that I mean, yeah.
Scott Peak is driving diagonally on the road. He's Well, I There's bad damage over there, man. It's done really bad damage ahead of him on this road. He's driving towards it now.
>> it shredded a house.
>> Yeah, you We're going to see it here in a minute. All right, guys, get ready.
It's going to be bad deal over here. It picked up a whole home right in front of him. I can't I really Okay, I'm going to go I'm going to go It hit this home on the left here.
And I have to go in a minute, too. Oh, [Β __Β ] I don't see any too bad It's hit the road home up there, man. This is Just You just I'm not even sure my screen.
Bad damage over here.
Does Shaw still have it? Shaw still has this tornado on the ground. It's low really low res.
Yeah.
Damn, that's crazy.
Shaw still got it. It's still a large grinder.
It's lifting now. It's lifting now.
Okay, I'm pretty sure this thing's occluding. If you look at the latest velocities, much weaker.
It is. It's occluding.
It might try and cycle. We really got to watch this cycle, man. God.
What in the world just happened, man?
Uh Peak's in major damage. Shaw still got it. Shaw has it occluding. You can see the whole mesocyclone on Shaw's.
It's still big dust circulation. This thing's done.
I don't even want to imagine what it's probably done back over here near Enid, but still It's still on the ground. Shaw still has it on the ground.
It's less uh condensed now though.
It still got a big dust cloud on the thing. I don't Shaw I I don't think Well, that was a big time grinder.
He's reporting that?
Yeah, he he just reported that.
Um Hold on. Hold on.
When did he say that?
Uh just on his stream.
I can't Uh well What can I general?
I know. I Uh yep, they're closing down the They're closing down the roads around Enid.
Well, they should be. That thing's still on the ground. Shaw still got it on the ground. I I'm sending this stream up.
Click on the stream. Shaw still got a big time cone tornado. Big time fully condensed cone on the ground.
I can't believe how long it Yep.
Uh Scott Look at this thing. Scott shouldn't be recording right now. They just reissued the tour, I think, if I'm not wrong. Did they not?
Yep. No, it's a PDA PDA back on it.
Should probably still be a tornado. It's about to hit the airport, man. It's really close to hitting this airport. I don't know how this thing's still ongoing, man.
Yeah, I don't know. It It's tried to occlude three times and it's failed. Oh my god.
This is a bad day.
I'm not trying to be one of those people, but I wouldn't be surprised if this gets EF5.
Yeah, we just have to wait.
I'm not trying to pre-rate or anything.
I I would say >> Hold on. New video. Oh my god. Guys, look at my video. Look at my stream.
Is it live? Is it a live stream?
No, it's not a live stream. It's a It's a It's a Just shows how evil this was. It's still on the ground.
It's still on the ground for Daniel Shaw. This thing is still a large extremely dangerous tornado on the ground.
Look at it.
Oh, it's still Yeah, it's got It's tightened a couple of yet again. Oh my goodness. Look at this. This is going to drop Hold on. Go back to the camera.
Someone go back to radar. I don't know who has radar open right now. Go back to radar. There's going to be two tornadoes here. There's going to be that one with the debris ball near Enid. Go Look to the south near Wakomis. That's another hook. Oh my gosh.
>> Oh yeah, it is.
Oh my god, that's from the Nudger cell.
Yeah, that's a bad deal. That'll be in a lot more rural areas, thankfully, but still it's going to be That thing has a debris ball on it.
Yeah, it does. It's I said that. I literally said that. When I saw it hit the Air Force base, I'm like, "Wow, we're really going to have another Andover deal." This thing is stalled out. It's detaching. Does Shaw still have it?
Uh Shaw does still have it.
It's right behind him. Look at this.
Look at that. Yeah, it's a big cone still. You're right.
It's right back in there. He's going to He's turning around. He's flipping a U-ey. He's getting out of there.
Yeah, we might Yeah, this It's been downgraded now. But, this Nudger cell that just merged into it is forming another rotation signature and another hook.
What?
>> it's too far for it to do a mesocyclone handoff.
It's not a handoff. It's still Well, it's the whole storm cycling and breathing.
Look at the beaver tail on this thing.
The width of this beaver tail.
It's intensifying. Go back to radar.
This thing's Yeah, it's It's getting bigger again.
I I really can't believe that. I I think it just failed to occlude again. It's This thing's had a really erratic path south of Enid.
It's done horrible damage in some of these spots. That's very scary, but Uh I'm I'm looking in the TRX weather lab for uh damage.
I I'm just going to hold off on that till we get some more reports. Maybe till we >> I I I think what we're seeing I think what we just saw was this uh homestead here.
Uh I'm going to wait on that cuz this thing's still This thing's occluding. Wow, Daniel Shaw has a beautiful shot of it.
Holy [Β __Β ] Uh we got Yeah, we This is a brick house.
Uh Dude, we can That's Wow.
This right here. Things finally I'm pretty sure that's brick at least.
That's like EF2 EF3 damage. I wouldn't worry about that. Stop pre- The tornado's still on the ground, y'all.
Yeah, I know.
Um newest imagery definitely looks stronger.
Uh it's really thin. You seeing this? It is thin as a rail.
It It's It's It's going to hit the airport here in a second if it doesn't stall or lift.
It's in the airport. That's weakening.
It's finally lifting, I think. I'll be right back, probably.
We've said that it's that it's finally >> Yeah, it looks way weaker on this newest scan.
>> Oh, wow. Max has a view of it Oh, wait, that was a while ago. Max has a view of this thing roping out. I didn't even realize that.
Yeah, there there it goes. It's off.
Beautiful. Will it recycle?
Beautiful. Now I'm going to watch this down here now.
Yeah, I know. That's kind I'll be back. I might leave for a bit, but Yeah, I'm I'm probably going to go AFK for a while, go outside. It's lifting.
All right, it's gone.
This thing's gone. Not quite yet. It's still There's still actually a dust cloud there on the bottom. We're going to stay with it.
There's still that dust cloud.
Thankfully, it's getting very close to the airport. It's going to lift before it hits the airport, but Oh, wow, man. This thing's been In it This has a EF3 damage so far, I would say. Let's just I'm Let's hold off. Let's not pre-rate. Let's not do that.
Uh Well, we haven't even seen the worst of the damage, probably. It's probably back in there. We haven't Wait till the morning.
>> what I mean That's what I mean so far. I mean, just from the um from what we're seeing coming in.
There's probably going to be EF4 plus damage.
Yeah, likely. Just seeing seeing the debris gran granulation.
I don't know about EF5 damage. There's There's a uh image of it roping out. I will say it was definitely EF5 intensity.
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