Talk:Tornado outbreak sequence of June 3–11, 2008

Chicago suburbs
NWS Chicago is now reporting that they confirmed seven different tornadoes hit the Chicago suburbs yesterday, and that they'll be posting a set of track maps at about 5PM CDT today. (As a side note, I'm getting vague reports on the news of a weak tornado hitting the Flint suburbs today--55 years, to the day, after the Flint-Beecher tornado.) Rdfox 76 (talk) 21:14, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

June 10
I would think that this would be the last day (MDT risk from Ontario to PA) for this article (as far as the severe weather activity, probably not the flooding) as all of this storminess will move out of the way. -- JForget 13:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * From this system at least it looks like it. Tomorrow's MDT is for a separate system. CrazyC83 (talk) 00:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

On June 12th the Nebraska/Iowa areas got hit. I can't get a confirmed count of tornados from local news, but I think it could easily be included in this outbreak sequence.Cornhusker1225 (talk) 02:58, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. It's June 11th today and there are reports coming out of western Iowa of a Boy Scout camp getting hit by a tornado with fatalities.  Tonight there is a whole line of storms from Minnesota to Oklahoma with tornado warnings up and down the line. --Sephiroth9611 (talk) 03:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * My god that night sucked, being stuck in a basement for 3 hours while the damned storms just sat there.--Jakezing (talk) 13:24, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Should this article be merged with June 2008 Midwest floods?

 * 1) The the same systems are responsible for each, in which case having one article is usually a WP Meteorology standard.
 * 2) Most of the Non-tornadic events section in this article is about the flooding.
 * 3) IMO, this article is kind of border-line for being article worthy.  Yes, there have been 73 confirmed tornadoes so far which is above the general threshold, but that is over the course of a week (probably will end up being around 15-18 per day, which is far below).  Only 2 of the tornadoes have been F3, and only 10 F2, which means that 61 out of the 73 have been weak tornadoes, and there have been no fatalities.

I guess what I'm saying is I think by itself this article is kind of non-notable, but if you add the flooding event in with it, that makes more sense to me. Thoughts? WxGopher (talk) 03:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe we should add the word derecho in the title, because there have been at least 3 major derecho events throught the time period, the one in the Middle Atlantic on June 4, the one in the central Plains on June 5 and the one in Michigan and Ontario on June 8. Other major near-derecho events included in Kansas on June 3, in Ohio on June 9 and in Quebec and upstate New York on June 10. As far for the tornadoes, there are still a lot of unconfirmed tornadoes left to be rated. I think most of the Kansas tornadoes were not rated, much of Missouri and central were still not rated as well as several in Iowa and possibly the Dakotas and elsewhere in the Midwest. This could easily exceed 100 tornadoes. JForget  12:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * 73 tornadoes (which is still preliminary - it will probably be more when the final numbers come in) is certainly article-worthy. I do agree that it could use work and that each of the three major derechos (the June 4 Mid-Atlantic derecho, the June 5 Plains serial derecho and the June 8 Great Lakes derecho) should have their own section at the bottom. CrazyC83 (talk) 15:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Now with the fatalities today and the decision to keep the article going, the argument seems moot. CrazyC83 (talk) 02:33, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


 * No question this is a notable event and deserving of an article. I don't think it should be merged with the flood article, but they could be coordinated.--Paul McDonald (talk) 01:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, obviously now after yesterday's events I withdraw this proposal. At some point though after both events are completed and the dust has settled I think it could be a good idea to create a parent article for the entire event, with  links to both this and the flood articles from it.  WxGopher (talk) 01:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

June 15
Hopefully, today's large moderate risk will be a bust, CAPE values in some areas are expected to hit 4000 j/kg. Again, many of the same areas hit by the recent rash of tornadoes over the past few weeks are under the moderate risk. When will it end?-- JForget 14:53, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No idea, but tornadoes aren't a big threat today. The wind patterns suggest a major derecho or two is possible though. CrazyC83 (talk) 19:04, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Midwest's supposed to be quite for once.--Jakezing (talk) 20:10, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

GA?
This article looks pretty good. When should we nominate for GA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Showtime2009 (talk • contribs) 02:22, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, this article looks pretty good, I think it's ready for a nomination now. I'll see if I can find anything to fine tune. WxGopher (talk) 02:45, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * One portion that was removed was the possible tornado near Highway 402. First it doesn't said the date, but might be on June 9 along the derecho, but also it is a doppler indicated possible tornado - thus not confirmed. I have not seen any confirmation other then the Lucan tornado. -- JForget 02:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Here are a couple suggestions I have so far:
 * provide a couple more refs for the first paragraph of the June 7-8 section (specifically for all of the tornado reports listed)
 * Try to add a couple more images to the non-tornadic events section (flooding section is fine, but more for the derecho parts) WxGopher (talk) 04:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Everything in that paragraph is sourced.
 * I can't find any images for june 4, 5, or 8 but i found a couple for june 10. Showtime2009 (talk) 03:35, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks good. I'll go through one more time and put some finishing touches on it.  WxGopher (talk) 04:10, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd say it's ready to nominate now. I think there are a few more things we can clean up, but it will likely be a few weeks before this is reviewed so we'll have some time to do that.  WxGopher (talk) 04:35, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Flooding should still be included
I'd rather not get into an edit war so I'll say it here; the section recently removed about the flooding should really stay. I say this because people might think, "what does this see also link have to do with tornadoes?" since there is no real connection without thinking about it. The section doesn't have to be massive, just two or three paragraphs (like what was already there) is perfect with a template under the section title. Thoughts? Cyclonebiskit 06:23, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The flooding was already ongoing before the outbreak and afterwards. It has its own article so I'll remove it from the see also section. Showtime2009 (talk) 20:46, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * But the outbreak did exacerbate the flooding, right? That would be included in the article as its part of this event. Cyclonebiskit 20:49, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

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