# Talk:2025 Somerset–London tornado

Great time to use this: EF5  22:07, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

General readers (non-Wx-enthusiasts) won't know the difference between the Fujita scale and Enhanced Fujita scale, so the "post-2007" aspect should be kept. EF5  15:21, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Does the claim even matter in that sense? Doesn't "worst since (Mayfield)" have the same effect? Departure– (talk) 15:35, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Departure–, that's true. — EF5  16:35, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

@ChessEric You mentioned how the Southern London and dissipation section is way too detailed and needed to be cut down a little. I honestly disagree, there are benefits to having a highly detailed article in my opinion; It can benefit the reader since they get more important knowledge about the tornado, like getting bunch of details on certain locations like where a fatality occurred or the specific names of businesses aren't loss.  Hoguert (talk) 01:22, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Hard agree - This "everything can't be too long" mindset is why we have so few quality tornado articles (and not a single FA!) and only a few over 100,000 bytes. There's nothing wrong with having by-street details. Note that this isn't an outbreak page, and as such isn't restricted by the "don't let it get too long" philosophy we often see at summary sections on tornado outbreak pages. — EF5  01:24, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
You know what? I stand corrected. I had honestly just glossed over it without reading much of it, which is why I said what I said. Looking over it now, I realized that chopping it down is unnecessary. I may reword some of it, but that's about it. Good job @Hoguert:. ChessEric 01:35, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for the compliment and clarification Hoguert (talk) 01:38, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't the death of Debra Edelman be counted as an indirect fatality given that the cause of death is stated as [carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty generator used during power outages caused by the storm? If so the infobox should probably be changed to 18 (+1 indirect) for fatalities, and I don't think indirect fatalities are usually counted towards the total annual count in Tornadoes of 2025. Yobatna (talk) 07:06, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

She's counted as a direct fatality in several publications, so calling it "indirect" is likely WP:OR. EF5  14:09, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Needs citations for media claims that the Jackson office was understaffed and a citation that the Jackson office was fully staffed at the time of the tornado. 172.98.32.54 (talk) 22:33, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Just wanted to give a heads-up that we do have an NCDC entry source for the Russell County portion of the tornado's track, but nothing for any other counties. Splitting by county is how these are typically done on the NCDC database, and the entry does state that the tornado crossed into Pulaski County, as well as the full event summary confirming maximum damage of EF4 strength near London, but we don't have finalized, non-preliminary entries for Pulaski and Laurel counties as of now. Departure– (talk) 14:12, 23 October 2025 (UTC)