Talk:Windsor Locks tornado

GA Reassessment

Windsor Locks, Connecticut, tornado

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:05, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to be reviewing this article as part of the reassessment drive of all weather-related good articles.

Well-written/verifiable

• The opening sentence could be stronger. Right now it reads as a bit of a run-on, with struck the towns of Windsor, Windsor Locks, and Suffield, Connecticut, and Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, October 3, 1979. Perhaps one of the tornado's more notable characteristics could be included in the opening, like that it was one of the costliest single tornadoes in the US, or one of three F4's in CT?
• In the infobox, the damage is formatted weirdly.
• Were there exactly 500 injuries? The article says " Over 400 people were hospitalized", so where did the 500 come from?
• You should have some sort of note that all times are in Eastern Daylight Time (presumably). That time zone is only mentioned in the infobox.
• I think you should split the storm synopsis and the impact section. Right now, you have material in both sections.
• "Eyewitness reports have the tornado ripping the roof off a grocery store in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Trees were uprooted in East Hartford, Connecticut. " - so did the tornado touch down in Wethersfield then?
• "Students at a Brownie meeting were led into a hallway just before the auditorium they had been in was destroyed." - the wording could be stronger
• The most severe damage occurred along River Road, Hollow Brook Road, Pioneer Drive and Settler Circle, where large frame houses were left "in splinters" - who said the quote "in splinters"?
• The tornado moved north into Feeding Hills before dissipating near the Westfield city line, about five miles north of the Massachusetts state line. - source?
• The Windsor Locks tornado, with $1.568 billion in damages (when adjusted for inflation) - what about unadjusted for inflation?
• Also is the article title the best one? There has never been another tornado to hit Windsor Locks? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:27, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Broad

• The lead could be expanded a bit, it's probably too short as it is. Be sure to include damage total, deaths, injuries, and anything else notable about the tornado.
• "The storm system that caused the tornado had produced severe weather, including two weak tornadoes, in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey that morning." - any way to expand on this? When did the LPA form? Also, since it starts out an entire section, you should probably mention the date.
• Any impacts in Massachusetts?
• This NY Times article mentions that $50 million in damage occurred to the Connecticut National Guard
• Where was the third death?

Neutral/Stable/Illustrated

• Definitely neutral/stable
• The satellite image is fine, but I'm not sure about the impact picture. There are other images that can be used, say from Monthly Weather Review, to illustrate the path/damage reports. It's not up to Wikipedia to have images of damage from every tornado. So I don't think the fair use claim is valid here.

Citations

• Is the Tornado Project a reliable enough source?
• Several citations are broken.

The article is decent, but it just doesn't quite seem up to the standards of a modern-day GA. I'll leave the review open for a week and notify the GA nominator. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:27, 29 January 2024 (UTC) Copied from Talk:Windsor Locks, Connecticut, tornado; Please see that page for attribution. Noah, AA^Talk 23:17, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Comments from WeatherWriter

I’m leaving two comments for others to reference from.

• Related to Is the Tornado Project a reliable enough source? — Yes. Actually, last August during a GA review of Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945, the exact same question came up. The Tornado Project is cited by the National Weather Service and is linked to by them in a more information page. (Further explanation on that GA review).

• Sweet, thanks for verifying that. I'm not as familiar with tornadoes. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

• Related to the impact (damage) image and about Monthly Weather Review: Actually, I would disagree with the assessment by Hurricanehink on the fair-use image not being valid here. Monthly Weather Review was no longer owned/operated by the US government starting in 1974. Therefore, that article suggested by Hurricanehink from 1987 will not qualify at all for public domain/free-to-use images. Also, it is by the State University of New York, not US government, so that is very clearly not free-to-use images. Currently, there has not been any presentable free-to-use images related directly to the tornado (satellite image is of the supercell, not directly tornado), so the fair-use image claim is, as it stands now, entirely valid and should be treated as such for a GA review, or at least until a directly-related free-to-use image is added. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 19:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

• Well put, that's fine then. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@WeatherWriter: Im not the one who conducted the review. I only copied and pasted what was left on the TP to here. Noah, AA^Talk 20:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Oh whoops. Just realized it is Hurricanehink conducting the review and you just did a copy/paste. My apologies for that. I will correct, the name in my comment. Cheers! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 20:18, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Yea I messed up doing the reassessment in the first place. I'll do better in the future, I swear :P ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Notice that the GAR officially starts at 20:27 UTC today. Noah, AA^Talk 16:02, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

I delisted the article because of no progress on any of these issues. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:10, 12 February 2024 (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.

Requested move 10 July 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: moved. Moved as an uncontested request with minimal participation. If there is any objection within a reasonable time frame, please ask me to reopen the discussion; if I am not available, please ask at the technical requests page. Also moved to Windsor Locks tornado. (non-admin closure) Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ouch} 08:52, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

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Windsor Locks, Connecticut, tornado → Windsor Locks TornadoWindsor Locks Tornado – There isn't another notable Windsor Locks, and precedent is to not include the state. I also think it sounds better NomzEditingWikis (talk) 23:47, 10 July 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 07:03, 18 July 2025 (UTC) — Relisting.  ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:19, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

• Support move to 1979 Windsor Locks tornado. I agree the Connecticut part isn't needed in the title, but believe the year should be included to bring this article in line with other tornadoes, like 1878 Wallingford tornado and 1953 Worcester tornado. ~~ Jessintime (talk) 14:57, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
  • Jessintime, see also Jarrell tornado, Joplin tornado and Greensburg tornado. — ^EF⁵ 14:27, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Connecticut, WikiProject Severe weather, and WikiProject Weather have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 07:03, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

• Support move as proposed. I'm not aware of any other Windsor Locks in the world (the name comes from the Farmington Canal if you're wondering) and this tornado is clearly the primary topic. I'm not certain on if tornado should be capitalized or not. For the Worcester tornado, I'd like to point out there was a sports team called the Worcester Tornadoes which gives some merit to the year as helping disambiguate. The 1878 Wallingford tornado article should probably be moved to just Wallingford tornado but that doesn't need to be determined on this talk page. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 02:29, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
• Support 1979 Windsor Locks tornado per Jessintime. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:26, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

  Support "Windsor Locks tornado" per Trainsandotherthings. ^EF⁵ 12:22, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Relisting comment: While there is a general consensus to move, !voters are split on whether to include the date, and this requires more discussion. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:19, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

• Support Windsor Locks tornado without the date, as unfortunately there seems to be no overall consistency when to add a date or not, so support the original but keep tornado decapitalized. DankJae 19:20, 25 July 2025 (UTC)
• Support Windsor Locks tornado - agreed on not needing to unnecessarily disambiguate, and on capitalization. Ivey (talk - contribs) 19:34, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

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