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Tornado tears through Menasha, leveling buildings and knocking over cars

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Articles
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Unique Sources
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Importance
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Diversity
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Top Tier
Snapshot born 4h ago · present at 1 data interval (4h ago → 4h ago)

Story History

The story across its frozen snapshot generations (each shares ≥ half of this snapshot's articles). ─ articles · ─ sources · squares = generation births, sized by importance (outlined = open that snapshot; filled = this one) · baseline band = intervals the story was live · ticks below = each generation's tone.
13 0 Jul 28 02:15 UTC — 10 articles · 9 sources · importance 10.0 · tone -6.0 (viewing)tone -6.0Jul 28 02:30 UTC — 11 articles · 10 sources · importance 11.0 · tone -6.2 · shares 10 with viewedtone -6.2Jul 28 03:30 UTC — 12 articles · 11 sources · importance 12.0 · tone -6.4 · shares 10 with viewedtone -6.4Jul 28 06:15 UTC — 13 articles · 12 sources · importance 13.0 · tone -6.8 · shares 10 with viewedtone -6.8 Jul 28 02:15 Jul 28 07:00 UTC
Born Articles Sources Importance Shared with this snapshot
44m ago 13 12 13.0 10
3h ago 12 11 12.0 10
4h ago 11 10 11.0 10

Articles in Story

Tier Title Category Source Feeling SentimentSentiment Score (-5 to +5)
LLM-assessed emotional tone of coverage.

-5 = extremely negative/alarming
0 = neutral/factual
+5 = extremely positive/hopeful

The colored bar shows position on the scale. Emotion badge uses Plutchik's 8 primary emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation.
T3 Tornado reported in Appleton weather_tornado wbay.com destructive, urgent, alarming
-4.1
fear
T3 BREAKING NEWS: Tornado reported in Appleton area ⚖ Contested weather_tornado kfiz.com alarmed, urgent, shocked
-6.7
fear
T3 Sheboygan County Spared Severe Weather – Appleton Not so Lucky weather_severe_storm 1065thebuzz.com relieved, shaken, sorrowful
-6.0
sadness
T3 Emergency crews respond to severe weather damage in Menasha ⚖ Contested weather_impact whby.com damaged, active, resilient
-6.8
trust
T3 Sheboygan County Spared Severe Weather – Appleton Not so Lucky weather_severe_storm wxerfm.com relieved, unsettled, wary
-6.0
surprise
T3 Appleton mayor gives update on recovery efforts following severe storms weather_impact fox11online.com informative, reassuring, steady
-6.3
trust
T3 Tornado tears through Menasha, leveling buildings and knocking over cars ⚖ Contested weather_tornado wxow.com devastated, shocked, terrified
-6.1
fear
T3 Sheboygan County Spared Severe Weather – Appleton Not so Lucky weather_impact whbl.com relieved, unsettled, empathetic
-6.0
surprise
T3 Sheboygan County Spared Severe Weather – Appleton Not so Lucky weather_severe_storm b93radio.com uneven, relieved, anxious
-6.1
surprise
T3 Storm damage reports in Appleton, Menasha, Neenah ⚖ Contested weather_impact whby.com damaged, disrupted, urgent
-5.7
sadness