Talk:2014 Louisville, Mississippi tornado

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by HurricaneZeta (talk) 14:50, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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Created by GrenadinesDes (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

GrenadinesDes (talk) 23:47, 16 November 2025 (UTC).

  • The article is new enough and is long enough for DYK. QPQ is not required since the nominator has fewer than 5 prior nominations. The article appears neutrally written and well sourced and it doesn't show any copyvio issue. Although the hook is interesting, I’m not fully confident about the sourcing for the hook’s main claim (the “door thrown 30 miles” detail). The CBS link seems to quote a tweet rather than confirm the fact directly, so I’m unsure whether that is strong enough for a hook. I’m a new reviewer, so I would appreciate a second opinion from someone more experienced on the hook verification. 1475Steeven (talk) 14:32, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
    • I'll take on that portion, looking thru the claim of the "30 mile door", which I can see thru another subsequent article in 2020 by CBS affiliate WHNT-TV in 2020. The source of the quote is a weather reporter named Dennis Merserau, whose name and articles checks out in multiple books and publications and in addition, the article has additional citation of being an artifact of this tornado. Prose size is 27298 characters. Verification of the Earwig Copyvio Check checks out for me as well. It is thoroughly written, and if you would like, get this additional citation in just for "two-factor" authentication of the door quote. By all means, I approve of this article. NeverBeGameOver (talk) 18:51, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 7 December 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 04:25, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

2014 Louisville, Mississippi tornado → 2014 Louisville, Mississippi, tornado2014 Louisville, Mississippi, tornado – Undiscussed and controversial move not grounded in any policy besides "precedent". EF5 14:51, 5 December 2025 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). TarnishedPathtalk 09:38, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Mississippi, WikiProject Severe weather, and WikiProject Weather have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPathtalk 09:38, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Oppose and speedy close per very recent similar request at Talk:2013 Washington, Illinois tornado which was closed as "not moved". And also Talk:2010 Knox County, Tennessee mayoral election which also closed with no consensus. See either of those two RMs for why the present title is the lesser of two evils in such cases. These endless repeated requests along the same lines are becoming tiresome now.  — Amakuru (talk) 13:05, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Support: This is not the same situation as for the other two RMs mentioned by Amakuru. Here the proposal is to move the article back to the title it originally had before someone made an undiscussed move and a WP:MOVEWAR began. In the absence of a clear consensus to do differently, it should go back to where it was. The proposal is also supported by the MoS, so we're not going to get a clear consensus to do differently. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:33, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
Oppose as the comma makes the title clunky and grammatically incorrect. I agree with Amakuru that this is getting tiring, and as noted previous RMs have generally shown that adding a comma is generally opposed. This is very much similar with the 2011 Philadelphia MS tornado in which that was generally seen as to not add a comma. MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 20:20, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Oppose per Amakuru and Mario. Jessintime (talk) 23:24, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
That one was moved more than a year ago. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 14:20, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Support - not sure why people want to circumvent the MOS so much. As usual, referencing past unrelated discussions isn't a sound argument, nor is WP:MOVEWARRING to the "better" title. EF5 20:08, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
    As you're the nominator of this RM, your support is taken as read, you shouldn't normally cast a separate "support" !vote. And I'm not sure why you think a discussion at 2013 Washington, Illinois tornado, which was on the exact same question, is "unrelated".  — Amakuru (talk) 08:23, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:2014 Louisville, Mississippi tornado/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: GrenadinesDes (talk · contribs) 05:09, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: NomzEditingWikis (talk · contribs) 23:22, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Wow thanks GrenadinesDes (talk) 23:49, 16 May 2026 (UTC)


Hi, first time reviewer. Looks like no immediate fails so I'll be combing through this tonight.

"large, destructive, and deadly EF4 tornado inflicted major destruction to Louisville, Mississippi, United States, and rural areas south of the town along its 34.38 miles (55.33 km) path." reads kinda weird NomzEditingWikis (talk) 03:53, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Fixed, though I suggest you should probably point out how it could be fixed so I don't get lost. GrenadinesDes (talk) 14:30, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

second paragraph of the lead is a bit too long, don't need details of the damage in the lead especially about things like chicken coops. NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:02, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Cut it down slightly and removed extra details. GrenadinesDes (talk) 14:45, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

"Over the next few years after the tornado, several businesses and homes were rebuilt, including the Winston Medical Center and a plywood manufacturing plant, as federal grants were allocated to the city and the county over those few years." if these are mentioned as rebuilt in the lead, they should be mentioned as destroyed in the lead as well. I'd probably just generalize this section NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:02, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Clarified that GrenadinesDes (talk) 14:55, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: what is "warm sector convection" NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: stuff like surface front, supercell etc should all be wikilinked or explained, check the entire section for this NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: "On April 24, a deep surface cyclone was forecasted to move" this is unclear; was the forecast made on the 24th or for the 24th NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: "day three moderate risk" explain the significance of this NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: skipped from april 26th to the day of basically, was there anything of note on the d2 outlook or the 06z d1 outlook? NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: what is a "30 hatched risk" NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: reword "with an increase in low-level shear expected across central Mississippi, northwest Alabama, and southern Tennessee along the outflow boundary" to show that the outflow boundary causes increased parameters NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: maybe give some of the times in UTC NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: "By 3:49 p.m. CDT, numerous discrete and clustered supercells were moving northwest from central Mississippi into northwest Alabama, with the damaging Tupelo EF3 tornado already occurring within the past hour as more discrete supercells initiated south into central Mississippi, suggesting that these storms will more likely remain separated for a few more hours, increasing support for long-tracked and significant tornadoes." run on, clunky sentence; tenses feel off NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

met synopsis: "Local observations showed an expected strengthening of the wind profiles and additional support from the low-level flow associated with surface pressure deepening, boosting storm relative helicity. Strong to violent tornado damage was expected over the next few hours with the most potent supercells" the citation associated with this doesn't seem to mention this, and looks like it was meant for the previous sentence. find a source and also explain what type of local observations were used (VWPs, etc) NomzEditingWikis (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

  • @GrenadinesDes: Have you finished resolving the above, and is this ready for a re-review? Z1720 (talk) 16:08, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
    @Z1720 ill review it, been a bit on a wiki break GrenadinesDes (talk) 16:10, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
    I can take care of the rest of the review once they start working on the corrections NomzEditingWikis (talk) 07:19, 2 June 2026 (UTC)