# Talk:EF5 drought

@EF5: I see the New Harmony tornado listed as an EF4 on pages for the 2011 Super Outbreak. Where are you getting that it was rated EF3? TornadoLGS (talk) 18:04, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

TornadoLGS, I had confused it with the Glade Spring, VA tornado from the same day. — EF5  18:08, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

As of today (10/6/25) the Enderlin tornado has officially been rated EF5 ChaseTOM4YT (talk) 15:05, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I saw an article on AccuWeather about an hour ago about this-here is the link for it: https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/the-first-ef5-tornado-since-2013-has-been-confirmed-in-north-dakota/1823103 Tornado Tracker2 (talk) 19:08, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
By the way the image at the top right of the top section with the years and how many EF5s, plus candidate EF5s, it needs to be changed because 2025 says 0, now we have an official EF5 this year. Tornado Tracker2 (talk) 19:11, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I changed the title of the page to reflect the shift of the EF5 drought from an ongoing event to a historical time period, matching drought pages like 2011–2017 California drought.
I am pinging @EF5: because they are both the creator of this page and one of the most active WikiProject Weather members. I value their input and would like to hear their thoughts on this move, along with any other changes that need to be made as a result of this change. Realjospence (talk) 21:37, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

For one, there's only been one "EF5 drought" (the other, from 1999 to 2007, doesn't have an article and involved the "F5" rating) and I don't think a time-frame needs added. Two, I haven't read the merge discussion since yesterday but I'm sure everyone has support a merge anyways so moving the title won't matter. EF5  21:41, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
With the merge proposition failing (at least to my understanding), I still think changing the title of the page is appropriate even if this is the first EF5 drought. I mentioned this on the WikiProject talk page, but changing the title would match the format of other droughts and better codify the page as referring to this specific EF5 drought, rather than the concept. I also expect the drought in future media and scientific literature to be mentioned alongside the date ranges. Apologies for making the thread on the wikipeorject at the same time as you sent this reply, I saw the reversion of the title and reasoning and decided to make the discussion there, to fit within proper procedure. Realjospence (talk) 16:14, 9 October 2025 (UTC)