Talk:Tornado outbreak of April 26–28, 2024

2024 Sulphur tornado was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 9 May 2024 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Tornado outbreak of April 26–28, 2024. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Lede[edit]

One may notice several possible flaws in the lede, namely these sentences:

On April 26, a tornado in Lancaster County, Nebraska, injured three people, which touched down in the northeastern outskirts of Lincoln, Nebraska - Why is this tornado lede-worthy?

At least twenty eight tornadoes were confirmed, with ten in Iowa and one each in Nebraska and Texas - Perhaps this should be updated or removed entirely?

At least six fatalities were attributed to the tornadoes, with more than 156 people injured - This is more or less repeated in the third paragraph.

Maybe the lede could be modified to include information about the Marietta tornado and the deaths that occurred at Sulphur and Minden? Idk.

Now, I would fix it myself, but I am hesitant to move forward without other editors' input due to my lack of experience in writing storm articles. AllTheUsernamesAreInUse (talk) 03:20, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ChessEric: Do you have ideas? AllTheUsernamesAreInUse (talk) 05:05, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AllTheUsernamesAreInUse: I go through these in order:

(1) Lincoln, Nebraska is one of the largest cities in Nebraska and the EF3 tornado that occurred near there received A LOT of media coverage. There was also plenty of pictures of this tornado, so I think it is noteworthy enough to keep.

(2) I'm going to be honest; I didn't even know what this sentence was talking about. I had to go check back through the history for context and it turned out that this was first added here as the 72nd edit when the outbreak article only had April 26. I think it's still there because the way the lede was written.

(3) I didn't go back to see when this was added, but the reasoning I listed for (2) probably applies here as well.

(4) That's a product of the lede not being updated to reflect later events due to the sheer magnitude of the May tornadoes. The editors of Severe Weather Project, which includes me, have gotten caught up with the large number of tornadoes and the three derechos that occurred in May, especially because 26 people were killed during the month. Additionally, as noted in the lede, this outbreak was the start of a 16-day period of elevated severe weather and tornado activity that we had to keep up with. As a result, while this article is very important, it became a low priority article while we dealt with May.

I appreciate you bringing this up as an outbreak of this magnitude does need a good lede. If you don't mind, I'll handle the lede, but I'll add your input as well. Happy editing! ChessEric 16:31, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks. That's pretty much what I thought, I just didn't know if anyone else had noticed these issues. AllTheUsernamesAreInUse (talk) 20:26, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]