Talk:2025 St. Louis tornado

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 09:44, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

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The St. Louis tornado as seen from the Gateway Arch

• ... that tornado sirens failed to activate during the 2025 St. Louis tornado, which caused the worst residential damage in the U.S. since the Joplin tornado over a decade ago?

• Source: Sirens, Joplin

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Spytek
  • Comment: I think both of these claims in tandem will be interesting, especially given the year. This happened less than two weeks ago but I found enough sources for an article.

Converted from a redirect by Departure– (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Departure– (talk) 01:08, 24 May 2025 (UTC).

• Hook is interesting. Sirens tick. Joplin tick. Both match sources and article. QPQ done. ―Panamitsu (talk) 05:47, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

• @Panamitsu: If it's not too much trouble, could you approve the image I've added? Good chance it doesn't run but I think it's one of the best free tornado images of the past decade, and I'd love to see it on the main page with this. Departure– (talk) 15:22, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

That does seem to be good although I'm not too familiar with CCTV copyright. Needs a caption though. ―Panamitsu (talk) 22:35, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

@Panamitsu: "The St. Louis tornado as seen from the Gateway Arch"? Departure– (talk) 23:12, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Looks good! ―Panamitsu (talk) 00:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Reformatted the image to make promotion easier, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 05:14, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

@Departure– and Panamitsu: Article attributes, hook doesn't. This should be fixed.--Launchballer 13:55, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: "...... that tornado sirens failed to activate during the 2025 St. Louis tornado, which caused the worst residential damage surveyed by FEMA since the Joplin tornado?"

Sources for expansion

Issues during recovery Departure– (talk) 17:01, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

More details on immediate aftermath and survey, "this scenario is likely to be repeated" Departure– (talk) 17:04, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Timeline at Centennial Christian Church, 911 calls rerouted to non-emergency line Departure– (talk) 20:17, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Death toll

All sources in the article and that I can find (except those before the total death figure could be tallied) state 5 deaths. Why is Juan Baltazar being removed from this list? I don't see any reason beyond maybe synthesis of the tornado's track to make the figure 4. Departure– (talk) 16:02, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

NWS St. Louis put out an ArcGIS summary on the tornado and it states that this tornado killed 4, not 5. Plus, if you look at where Juan died, you'll see that it was WAY outside the path of this tornado. ChessEric 17:04, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

ChessEric, while I appreciate your work trying to keep articles factual, I would greatly appreciate if, when changing facts that contradict existing sources, you have a sufficient explanation to begin with for a summary and a source to back up the change. Edit summaries such as "This death was nowhere near the damage path of the tornado; please pay attention." or "It was 4." are perceived, by me at least, to be calls to synthesize facts instead of finding them in reliable sources; in addition, I believe the best way to handle a fact correction would be to add the corrected fact as a note, acknowledging the original and inaccurate report, instead of just scrubbing it from the article. Most readers aren't going to look to the talk page or edit history to find the sources for these facts, and may even see the need to revert back to the previous inaccurate revision if it isn't acknowledged. Departure– (talk) 20:54, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

I apologize for the unclear edit summaries. Most of my edit summaries are either (a) a reflection of my thoughts or (b) written in a hurry. I also get annoyed when I have to correct something more than once, which is part of the reason why the 2nd edit summary you listed only had that short statement. I'll work on being more descriptive about what I edited in the future. ChessEric 17:03, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

I'm New to This Editing and Made a Minor Change

I've added a list of affected neighborhoods to the article about the 2025 St. Louis Tornado. My neighborhood was hit but wasn't mentioned at first. RioStanton (talk) 05:20, 25 April 2026 (UTC)