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A fact from EF5 drought appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 March 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that while six EF5 tornadoes hit the United States during the 2011 tornado season, there has not been an EF5 tornado in more than ten years?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/EF5 drought.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 18:02, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that while six EF5 tornadoes hit the United States during the 2011 tornado season, there hasn't been an EF5 tornado in over ten years?

Source: https://www.abc57.com/news/ef5-tornado-drought-continues

ALT1: ... that the EF5 drought has spanned over ten years? Source: https://www.abc57.com/news/ef5-tornado-drought-continues
ALT2: ... that a study found that the currently-active EF5 drought has a 0.3% chance of happening for as long as it has been? Source: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-24-0066.1/BAMS-D-24-0066.1.xml?tab_body=pdf
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Qizil Armies
Comment: ~~It's currently nighttime over here, so I'll nom tonight and QPQ tomorrow (I promise this time, lol). Feel free to reword hooks, the wording seems off to me.~~

Created by EF5 (talk) and Tails Wx (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

E_F⁵ 02:16, 3 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Well first of all I must say that EF5 is probably the best name of a person to nominate this article. The article looks good (is new/long enough and Earwig's is clear). The ALT0 hook is interesting and matches the article. The provided source is from 2021 (8 years since the drought began) so that source doesn't support the hook but the sources in the article do so there's no issue. Just waiting on the QPQ. ―Panamitsu (talk) 05:47, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Panamitsu: Done! :) E_F⁵ 13:56, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go. ―Panamitsu (talk) 21:09, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New Harmony tornado

@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)[reply]

TornadoLGS, I had confused it with the Glade Spring, VA tornado from the same day. — E_F⁵ 18:08, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]