Talk:Tornado outbreak of April 19–20, 2023

Fujiwhara Effect

I'm not a meteorologist, so I don't want to touch this subject myself, but a lot of news coverage and discussion has been around the Fujiwhara Effect and it's correlation to the erratic movement of the circulation in April 19th's large supercell. I definitely think it should have a mention. Wikiwillz (talk) 16:00, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Yeah. That's what I did based on a NWS Norman tweet. ChessEric 21:35, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Article

Hey. It’s Visibility. I just wanted to say, should this be moved into the article namespace yet? There has already been a confirmed EF3+ tornado, plus the additional risk of more tornadoes. 66.50.50.100 (talk) 21:41, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Necessary?

I think this event is really skirting notability for its own standalone section. There are multiple strong tornadoes, one of which killed 3 people, but none of them impacted major cities and the worst damage is only confined to a handful of structures. The majority of the outbreak will have been driven by a single supercell. This is not a meaningful multi-day outbreak. It won't be the most useless article in history if it's kept, but I do think this information can comfortably fit within a subsection. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 23:45, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Yeah I actually do think this one is necessary. After the surveys are completed we can reassess, though. United States Man (talk) 23:47, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

So if that's the case, why does April 4-5, which produced more tornadoes and caused more fatalities, not get an article, yet this one does? What makes this article absolutely necessary, but not that other one? I have concerns about the seemingly fluid, subjective, and ambiguous manner of rationale that seems to go into differentiating which outbreaks get an article, and which ones don't. There is no consistency here.

TornadoInformation12 (talk) 00:30, 21 April 2023 (UTC)TornadoInformation12

I believe that the event, particularly the monster storm on the 19th, affected a significant portion of the population in a highly concentrated area, which led to increased media attention. Additionally, although not necessarily substantial evidence, platforms such as Twitter saw more than 10 times the engagement and discussion about the storms and tornadoes compared to those on the 4th and 5th. I think the unusual nature of the storms and the general public fear on the 19th warrant a standalone article. Wikiwillz (talk) 14:55, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

April 4-5 definitely deserved an article, and I was shocked one was not created. I also think this is notable enough, but if more tornadoes aren’t confirmed (which usually happens), I’d be open to merging. 108.58.27.76 (talk) 21:27, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

This IP is likely another Andrew5 sock and should be ignored. United States Man (talk) 22:28, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• @Wxtrackercody and TornadoInformation12: Pinging users who participated already. I am fine with merging this back to the main page if y'all are. Don't see much significance at this point. United States Man (talk) 22:09, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks for the creation of the article!

Tails Wx 23:59, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Do we keep cole tornado ef3+ or EF3?

Why is it plus on tornado page but for theboutbreak its just EF3? I decided to change the tornado page to regular ef3 because humans seem to be in a civil war over these pages that are related Colin777724 (talk) 17:02, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

As of right now, there's no reason to believe NWS Norman would increase the rating. But I do agree there should be continuity. Wikiwillz (talk) 17:08, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Nah. We don't need the plus anymore. ChessEric 02:29, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Add other tornadoes, remove April 20, or leave as is?

The same system that produced the tornadoes on April 19 has continued to produce tornadoes for 5 straight days and yesterday saw several tornadoes, including an EF2 tornado in New York. Normally, we would put all the tornadoes from the same system into one outbreak article. However, April 19 was clearly the "main day" for the outbreak and it just doesn't feel right to add the other days. Long story short, I came up with this question. Should we (a) include all the days this system produced tornadoes, (b) remove the three weak tornadoes from April 20, or (c) leave the article as is due to the non-tornadic effects (Chicago got beat up by wind and hail on April 20)? ChessEric 22:23, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I think just merge the whole page back to the main page. United States Man (talk) 22:35, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Yeah. Usually I would disagree with you, but it's sensible to merge this back onto the main page. Poodle23 (talk) 16:31, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

It's back

I restored the page Creeperboy22011 (talk) 16:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Did consensus change? I wasn’t aware of another discussion that overturned the overall consensus above that this article wasn’t necessary. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 17:15, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Merge proposal

I propose merging this article into Tornadoes of 2023#April 19–20. There is a very unclear consensus about whether this tornado outbreak needs an article and there is a chance past discussions have been tainted by block-evader Andrew5, with at least one confirmed case of this. A formal-setting discussion (Merge proposal) can help establish whether this article actually has notability or not. Note, I am proposing it, but I have not fully decided on a “Support” or “Oppose” on this proposal. I just know this article needs a formal discussion about whether it should exist or not. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 17:21, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

• Remaining neutral for now. I need time to assess all the past discussions as well as how the article looks and check for any additional notability boosts (like academic papers) in the last year about the outbreak. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 17:21, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
• Merge – A seemingly “new” user restores this and then immediately posts about it here with no reasoning? This should have just been reverted. United States Man (talk) 17:34, 25 February 2024 (UTC)