Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Greenfield tornado

Greenfield tornado

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Original – A photograph of the 2024 Greenfield tornado, the strongest tornado during the tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–27, 2024

Reason: Extremely high EV for one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded, and the third highest wind speed ever measured on earth (Tornado records#Highest winds observed in a tornado). Tornado was also academically studied (Research on tornadoes in 2024#Greenfield tornado) by several organizations. High EV public domain photograph no less as well.
NOTE: The image barely fails the second FP criteria, as it is 2,048 × 1,366 pixels. However, per the criteria, "Exceptions to this rule may be made where justified on a case-by-case basis, such as for historical, technically difficult or otherwise unique images", so this is being nominated under the grounds of an exception to FPC #2.
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FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather
Creator: Isaac Polanski, uploaded by TornadoLGS

Support as nominator – The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 03:12, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – one time event, and very nice composition. I agree with taking an exception per above. Bammesk (talk) 01:26, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Agree as per above; an excellent photo considering how fast the conditions were shifting. Moonreach (talk) 15:40, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question - The source credits Isaac Polanski via Twitter. His post corroborates this. However, I'm not seeing if he is working for the US Government; rather, he is a "stringer" for a storm media licensing company (Their Twitter). Are we sure that the NWS had the right to release the image into the public domain? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:50, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Crisco 1492:Yes. Per Template:PD-NWS on the Commons. The NWS actually has this clause stated for users submitting images to them: "By submitting images, you understand that your image is being released into the public domain. This means that your photo or video may be downloaded, copied, and used by others". One of the other tornadic Featured Pictures (File:Lincoln, NE EF3 tornado.jpg) is under the same license on the Commons as well. Tons of discussions on the Commons have determined it is valid. To not clog this FPC up, I won't link them all here, but if you want me to, I can link you several discussions on the Commons surrounding the PD-NWS guidelines. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 23:58, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, that works for me. Support. This is an image we'd never be able to take again, and the quality is excellent. When the creator even says that it's one of the few times he's been intimidated by a tornado, we have something special. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:45, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support – _ZZ^Z 'S 02:18, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:56, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 14:33, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Greenfield IA tornado 2024.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:40, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]