Talk:Iowa tornado outbreak of July 2018

Boat incident

It seems to me that the boat incident should be included. Tornado outbreak articles usually do include non-tornadic effects from the associated storm system. TornadoLGS (talk) 23:31, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

@TornadoLGS: I think it has already.ChessEric (talk · contribs) 08:26, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@ChessEric: Mention of the boat incident was added and then removed at one point, so I commented here on the matter, after which it was added back. TornadoLGS (talk) 21:23, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh ok. Gotcha. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 21:29, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

• @ChessEric and TornadoLGS: — I am reopening this discussion on the Table Rock Lake duck boat accident, in regards to the following sentence in the lead — The event was also notable due to the Table Rock Lake duck boat accident that killed 17 people and injured 7 others at Table Rock Lake, Missouri. and the sub-section Non-tornadic effects. The references in the sub-section do not verify that the 'boat accident' was any way linked to the Iowa tornado outbreak of July 2018. Additionally, none of the 48 references in the boat accident article mention the Iowa tornado outbreak being linked to the boat accident. Are there any references in this article that can verify the sentence in the lead and the sub-section? I was unable to find any sources that link the Iowa tornado outbreak to the boat accident.

Both the NTSB Marine Accident Report (page 31) and the National Weather Service Central Region Service Assessment (page 50) concluded the weather event that caused the boat accident was a violent and significant derecho weather event. There is no mention of the Iowa tornado outbreak mentioned in either official report.

I removed the 'Iowa tornado outbreak' content from the boat accident article per WP:VERIFY - any material whose verifiability has been challenged ... must include an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material. My intention is to do the same here by removing the 'boat article' content due to failing verification. Your thoughts? Isaidnoway (talk) 16:07, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

SUMMARY OF DERECHO EVENT FROM BOTH NTSB AND NWS REPORTS

In summary: On July 19, 2018, a violent derecho developed in eastern Kansas and swept through southwest Missouri causing considerable damage along its path with over 115 instances of severe weather winds or wind damage. On July 19, 2018, a significant derecho event occurred over southern Missouri resulting in wind gusts over 70 mph over much of southwest Missouri and the Table Rock Lake region. The severe weather that impacted Table Rock Lake on the evening of July 19 was a convective weather system called a “derecho.” The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, which monitors non-severe and severe thunderstorm threats across the contiguous United States, concluded that the derecho impacting the accident site covered 473 miles (from north-central Kansas to northern Arkansas) and lasted for 9 hours 24 minutes. Figure 14 depicts the progression of the storm system in a mosaic of edited radar images. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: The rare weather event to hit the Ozarks on July 19, the night the Ride the Ducks boat sank into Table Rock Lake, was a derecho, according to a preliminary report from the National Weather Service. Storm that hit Branson during duck boat sinking known as a Derecho The storm front that passed through Table Rock Lake is known as a derecho, or straight line of thunderstorms. A spokeswoman for Ripley Entertainment ... said in a statement that the company continues “to cooperate with all investigations into the sudden and severe storm known as a derecho that struck Table Rock Lake in July of 2018, resulting in a tragic accident.” ... take to the water of Table Rock Lake in southwest Missouri just ahead of a powerful storm that pummeled the region and caused the boat to sink. Before 6 p.m., the general manager of Ride the Ducks Branson “reviewed radar information … and made a self-assessment on timing of the derecho approaching.” Shortly after lunchtime, a curved band of thunderstorms known as a derecho began taking shape in northern Kansas, blasting southeast with widespread 60 to 75 mph straight-line winds. It had been raging for most of the day before arriving in Branson.