Talk:2012 Henryville tornado

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 15:35, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

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The 2012 Southern Indiana tornado displaying subvortices near Henryville, Indiana

• ... that the 2012 Southern Indiana tornado (pictured) ripped chunks of asphalt concrete off of a road and threw the pieces 30 yards (27 m) away?

• Source: https://www.weather.gov/lmk/tornado_climatology_march22012

• • ALT1: ... that witnesses to the 2012 Southern Indiana tornado (pictured) stated that it looked like a "black wall"? Source: https://www.weather.gov/lmk/tornado_climatology_march22012
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2025 New Delhi railway station stampede
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Moved to mainspace by EF5 (talk), Hoguert (talk), and Tails Wx (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 21 past nominations.

E_F⁵ 14:29, 21 February 2025 (UTC).

• I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:19, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article looks good. Nice work. Copyvio score is high but that's because of text copied from a public domain source and attributed. The only thing I noticed is that I don't see the ALT0 hook in the article? (ctrl-f for "27 m" "30 yards" and "concrete" didn't find it). @EF5: Am I missing something? BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:38, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

@BeanieFan11: Swap out "concrete" for "asphalt". :) E_F⁵ 02:47, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

I see. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:50, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 20 October 2025

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The result of the move request was: moved to 2012 Henryville tornado. While participants were relatively split on which title to prefer, the discussion shows that almost all of them favored some move away from the current title; a plausible case was made that identifying specific communities impacted by the tornado would be an improvement along WP:COMMONNAME. An alternate proposal for "2012 Henryville–Marysville tornado" was raised but did not appear to get any traction from other users, preventing it from gathering enough momentum to contend for consensus. Overall, I see a narrow but present consensus to move the article as proposed; HurricaneZeta also noted that "tornado" should be lowercased (per WP:NCCAPS) and I'm boldly implementing that as well. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 21:48, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

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2012 Southern Indiana tornado → 2012 Henryville Tornado – Follows the convention of using the name of the most impacted community. Didn't impact a long list of communities like 2021 Western Kentucky NomzEditingWikis (talk) 19:00, 20 October 2025 (UTC) — Relisting.  --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 23:39, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Oppose and speedy close per WP:NCWWW. Other areas besides Henryville were affected and this just seems like a hash re-opening after the previous revert of the move, at least IMO. MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 19:15, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Support - NCWWW doesn't apply to every case and requesting ever RM be speedy closed is, imo, disruptive. ^EF⁵ 19:17, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Henryville was by far the most affected area, and most sources refer to it as the "Henryville Tornado"

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2022/03/02/henryville-indiana-tornado-2012-10-years-after-devastating-tornado-forever-changed/9320500002/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z111503u112103e006300v111503&gca-ft=180&gca-ds=sophi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mDbZIIZAs

https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-stories/march-2-2012-marking-12-years-since-violent-henryville-tornado/

These are like the top 3 hits after googling "2012 Southern Indiana tornado," suggesting that 2012 Southern Indiana tornado is not the common name of this event NomzEditingWikis (talk) 19:22, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Comment should probably not capitalize tornado HurricaneZeta (T) (C) 13:00, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

yeah thats my bad NomzEditingWikis (talk) 06:41, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Partial Support: Unlike Western Kentucky 2021, which hit countless towns and even a city (Mayfield), Henryville hit 3 towns

New Pekin at EF3 - EF4 intensity

Henryville at EF4 intensity

and Marysville at EF4 intensity

The damage in Henryville is by far the most well known in this tornado unlike Western Kentucky

In Western Kentucky's case, Damage in Cayce, Princeton, Dawson Springs, and Bremen are also incredibly well known and talked about alongside Mayfield

If I am being honest though

I would prefer the article to be moved to

2012 Henryville–Marysville tornado

Marysville was also heavily affected just like Henryville Quincy Gordon (talk) 00:54, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

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GA review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:2012 Henryville tornado/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: EF5 (talk · contribs) 21:28, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: GiftedIceCream (talk · contribs) 13:55, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Reviewing this!GiftedIceCream 13:55, 27 April 2026 (UTC) I have done the following changes:

• Added a link to the parent outbreak.
• the tornado was the single deadliest of the outbreak→the tornado was the deadliest of the outbreak
• Added NBSPs
• An evolving line of semi-discrete tornadic supercells across eastern Illinois and western Indiana following the northward lifting of the warm front and a rapidly-strengthening low-pressure area over the central Great Lakes. This prompted a PDS tornado watch for eastern Illinois and western Indiana, along with southeastern Missouri and western Kentucky; a second PDS tornado watch was issued for eastern Indiana, western Ohio, and central Kentucky as the line moved east.→An evolving line of semi-discrete tornadic supercells across eastern Illinois and western Indiana following the northward lifting of the warm front and a rapidly-strengthening low-pressure area over the central Great Lakes prompted a PDS tornado watch for eastern Illinois and western Indiana, along with southeastern Missouri and western Kentucky; a second PDS tornado watch was issued for eastern Indiana, western Ohio, and central Kentucky as the line moved east.
• The tornado first developed in southern parts of Fredericksburg, snapping trees at EF1 strength while meandering just south of US 150 and along the Blue Lick River.→The tornado first developed in the southern parts of Fredericksburg, snapping trees at EF1 strength while meandering just south of US 150 and along the Blue Lick River.
• Linked chassis
• Fixed a duplicated ref.

Spotcheck looks good.

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