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2024 Greenfield tornado damage via drone

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Original – Extreme damage from the violent 2024 Greenfield tornado, which had measured winds of up to 318 miles per hour (512 km/h). Aerial imagery of EF4 damage to homes in northeastern Greenfield, Iowa. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 170 mph (270 km/h) in the area of this photograph.

Reason

Passed all of the criteria & is a high-quality (4,000 × 3,000 pixels) photograph of some damage from the 2024 Greenfield tornado. The tornado was small in width, which creates this damage gradient of homes leveled near buildings nearly untouched.

Articles in which this image appears

2024 Greenfield tornado, Tornadoes of 2024, Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–27, 2024, List of Iowa tornadoes

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather

Creator

ChristopherRiske (Wikimedia Commons User)

• Support as nominator – The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 13:44, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
• Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. – Sca (talk) 14:51, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

• Generic question Sca — What “visual information” is not “readily intelligible to general readers/viewers”? Tornado = destruction. This tornado was highly in the news as having over 300 miles per hour (480 km/h) winds. I would say if a general reader was told “this is tornado damage”, almost every general reader/viewers could easily understand that is tornado damage. Could you be more specific as to what visual information is not going to be intelligible to the general person? The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 17:28, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

• An empty lot full of trash. -- Sca (talk) 14:43, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

• His/Her/They votes are generic and shallow. ArionStar (talk) 13:34, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
• It isn't "trash", it's people's lives and livelihoods. — E_F⁵ 14:48, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

• Support - Great aerial of tornado damage. If this is "unintelligible", I don't know what is. E_F⁵ 16:57, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
• Support +1. ArionStar (talk) 13:35, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
• Support I don't think this thumbnails as well as I'd like, but once you see the cars and realise the scale... Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 14:08, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
• Support per Cuerden. JayCubby 16:23, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
• Support — Hounaam (talk) 09:11, 26 March 2025 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 11:46, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
• Support per Cuerden. Love High Risk Chris (author of photo I think). Wildfireupdateman :) (talk) 22:04, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
• Support High quality photo that clearly illustrates the awful damage this tornado caused. Nick-D (talk) 00:07, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
• Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 11:37, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Promoted File:Aerial imagery of EF4 damage to homes in Greenfield, Iowa.jpg --– 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 18:49, 3 April 2025 (UTC)