Talk:2022 Andover tornado

2022 Andover tornado is currently an Earth sciences good article nominee. Nominated by ^EF^5 at 14:44, 21 May 2025 (UTC) Any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and save the page. (See here for the good article instructions.) Short description: 2022 EF3 tornado in Kansas, US

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A fact from 2022 Andover tornado appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 December 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the 2022 Andover tornado (video featured) injured only three people, despite damaging more than 1,000 buildings? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2022 Andover tornado.

Did you know nomination

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. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:15, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The 2022 Andover tornado, as seen at EF3 intensity

• ... that despite damaging over 1,000 buildings, the 2022 Andover tornado (pictured) only injured three people?

• Source: https://www.weather.gov/ict/event_20220430

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chris Wright (energy executive)
• Comment: Since I know this'll be brought up, tornado intensity does not equate to notability. This is a rare case of an EF3 tornado meeting our myriad of notability guidelines.

Created by EF5 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

E_F⁵ 20:03, 19 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]

The tornado seen from Andover City Hall

• Hi @EF5:, review follows: article created 19 November and exceeds minimum length; article is well enough written and generally cited throughout, I've tagged a few instances where it is not; I am no tornado expert but the sources used look to be reliable for the subject; I noted that the "Meteorological synopsis" section is copy pasted from the source, but that this is from the federal NOAA so is PD; hook fact is interesting, stated in the article and checks out to sources; a QPQ has been carried out; image is OK but I wonder if the video could appear instead; they tend to do well at DYK. If you can address the citations needed I think this should be good to go - Dumelow (talk) 09:54, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was actually just about to upload that video, but it appears that someone got to it first. Yes, that video would be much better. I’ll get to the citations in a bit. E_F⁵ 13:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow: All CNs have been addressed. The stuff in the lede is cited in the main prose, same goes with infobox content. E_F⁵ 13:36, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @EF5:. Looks good to go - Dumelow (talk) 13:45, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

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Nominator: EF5 (talk · contribs) 14:44, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Therapyisgood (talk · contribs) 15:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

taking. Therapyisgood (talk) 15:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

• hatnote isn't needed, see WP:NAMB

I'd invoke WP:IAR as these two tornadoes are very often mixed up. Plus, that says preferable and not "required". ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• "drill-bit" tornado I have no idea what a "drill-bit" tornado is, can you link/explain?

Not added by me (I think?);  Done, removed. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• severe EF3 damage I'm not sure what EF3 means, or that "EF3" can accurately describe damage (ie rather than a tornado)

 Done, added. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The tornado first touched down southwest of Andover in Sedgwick County, first causing minor damage. not sure the first "first" is needed

 Done, removed. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The tornado reached EF3 can you explain what scale this is on? As someone unfamiliar with tornadoes I have no idea.

 Done, mentioned in lede per above comment. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• A powerful low pressure system link/explain low/pressure system, no clue what that means

 Done, linked. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• "sharp dryline" no clue what a dryline is

 Done, linked. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• "including a 10% risk area for tornadoes." this needs further explanation, what is a "risk area"?

 Done, linked. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• warm front link/explain, is this related to the "dryline" above?

 Done, linked. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• link Wichita

 Done, linked. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• "supercell" no idea again what this means

 Done, linked. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• EF0 intensity wind speed?

 Done, added. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• "high-end EF2" wind speed?

See below. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• for all of these EF1/2/3/4/5 the wind speeds are needed, also is there anything else to the intensity other than wind speeds?

I disagree that all are needed; it would make the article way too clunky. Numerous other tornado GAs (Greensburg tornado, 2011 Cordova–Blountsville tornado, 2014 Pilger, Nebraska, tornado family, etc.) give EF damage ratings without exact wind speeds.

• damage was rated EF2 who rated the damage?

 Done, added.

• last paragraph in the "Tornado summary" section needs broken up into 2 paragraphs

 Done, fixed.

• The building was completely destroyed and swept from its slab foundation, though it lacked interior walls I don't understand, how could it lack interior walls?

Some buildings are just built terrible. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• 1,074 buildings were damaged by the tornado to varying degrees; up to 400 of those were destroyed. don't start a sentence with a number

 Done, added "An estimated". ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The United States Air Force deployed 150 airmen were they all men? MOS:GNL would suggest using a different term

See Airman; that's the official term and isn't gender-related. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• ref 1 needs an ndash instead of a hyphen

 Done.

• mix of 2024-11-29, Retrieved November 19, 2024, and Retrieved 17 October 2022 style in refs

 Done, added {{use mdy dates}}. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• what makes "Survive-a-Storm" a reliable reference?

 Done, removed. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• now that a few years have passed, is there any update to the recovery from the tornadoes? ie rebuilding

I'll get to this shortly. ^EF⁵ 16:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@EF5: any update? Therapyisgood (talk) 04:35, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@EF5: Therapyisgood (talk) 22:58, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get to this shortly, sorry. Been trying to scale back my WP editing while still closing things I've had open. ^EF⁵ 15:30, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Er… I'll just place this back in the queue. Weird. ^EF⁵ 04:32, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

all for now, placing on hold. Therapyisgood (talk) 16:07, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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