Talk:Tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011

Jumping the gun?

It appears that the Missouri and Minnesota tornadoes have been given speculative ratings while the there is no official confirmation as such since they just occurred. Tornadoes should be rated only when official word from storm survey teams are made. Stormchaser89 (talk) 9:00pm, 22 May 2011 US central time

I reverted them and warned the user. CrazyC83 (talk) 01:57, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Twitter Pictures

Are we allowed to add the pictures of the walmart and the high school from twitter pics.24.235.72.105 (talk) 02:24, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, Twitter Pics are copyrighted by the uploader unless otherwise specified. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 07:07, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Split Joplin, MO tornado to separate article

Especially with more tornadoes expected in the next two days, I think by the end of today we should have enough info from surveys for the Joplin tornado to have its own article. I know we always talk about this and never do it, but I think this is the historic tornado that we always hoped would remain hypothetical.-RunningOnBrains^(talk) 12:01, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That is likely once more information is added, and also dependant on what happens today and tomorrow. Horrible, horrible tragedy. Today looks, at this point, a lot less menacing for tornadoes (moderate risks are for wind and hail), but tomorrow looks frightening. Hopefully no big tornadoes in major cities - some in line are Tulsa, Muskogee, Stillwater, Fort Smith and Fayetteville. CrazyC83 (talk) 13:57, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, it will probably warrant its own article eventually. But rather than split it now, it's probably better to develop it in situ and split it when ready. We don't have enough info yet. Plasticup ^T/C 14:11, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]