Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Severe Weather. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
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| Severe weather articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA |
1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| FL |
1 | 1 | |||||
 GA |
2 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 31 | ||
| B | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 22 | ||
| C | 9 | 15 | 23 | 15 | 62 | ||
| Start | 1 | 11 | 97 | 96 | 3 | 208 | |
| Stub | 6 | 13 | 69 | 1 | 89 | ||
| List | 3 | 37 | 47 | 2 | 89 | ||
| Current | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Category | 186 | 186 | |||||
| Disambig | 14 | 14 | |||||
| Template | 29 | 29 | |||||
| NA | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Assessed | 14 | 46 | 203 | 242 | 235 | 6 | 746 |
| Total | 14 | 46 | 203 | 242 | 235 | 6 | 746 |
[edit] Title
WikiProject on Severe Weather
[edit] Scope
The purpose of the Severe Weather project is an initiative to maintain, standardize, and create pages for all severe weather phenomena, to create, maintain, and improve pages for significant encyclopedic severe weather events as they occur, and to create, maintain, and improve articles for historic severe weather events.
While the term severe weather means, by some definitions, any weather phenomena which cause damage to life and property, the most common definition of severe weather refers to damaging phenomena produced by severe thunderstorms This project concentrates on the latter, focusing on articles related to tornadoes, hailstorms, derechos, lightning, and other severe thunderstorm-related phenomena. Historical events involving or caused by these phenomena, as well as severe weather meteorologists and other people involving severe weather events may also be included.
[edit] Goals
1) Standardize pages for severe weather events and people, in the same spirit as our parent project.
2) Improve the pages for severe weather phenomena.
3) Learn more for historical severe weather events, and provide detailed information for current and recent severe weather events.
[edit] Parentage
- WikiProject Meteorology is the parent project of this WikiProject.
[edit] Related WikiProjects
[edit] Related Wikiportals
[edit] Participants
[edit] Active members
- RunningOnBrains 07:18, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
- CrazyC83 02:10, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- WxGopher (formerly Gopher backer)
- Evolauxia
- Southern Illinois SKYWARN
- JForget
- Juliancolton (talk) 20:09, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
- Rdfox 76 (talk) 16:48, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
- Cyclonebiskit (talk) 21:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- AtheWeatherman (talk) 08:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Bhockey10 (talk) 07:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Chris1193 (talk) 15:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Itfc+canes=me (talk) 10:49, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
- °≈§→ Robomaeyhem ←§≈° 00:21, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- Inferno, Lord of Penguins 22:23, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
- --क्षेम्य Tranquility 18:53, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
- Bbabybear02 (talk) 23:55, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
- Ks0stm (T•C) 20:12, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
- KnowledgeRequire
- -Marcusmax(speak) 04:47, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- Handbook3
- TheAustinMan (talk) 22:54, 22 May 2010 (UTC) I'll specialize in tornado outbreaks.
- Oaxspot
- Zonafan39
- (formerly "Red Thunder") A8x (talk) 20:31, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
- Joseph507357 (talk) 15:55, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Perseus, Son of Zeus 16:14, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
- TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 22:22, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
- Kyle1081
- Skamecrazy123
- Inks.LWC
- Bruvtakesover 22:48, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Gwickwire (talk) 03:07, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Inactive members
This section is for users who are inactive in this Wikiproject; these users may change their status at any time, if they wish.
- Senators
- Wweisreal
- Meteoguy 18:53, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- WxHalo
- Fujita
- WindRunner 18:19, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
- Hydrogen Iodide(HI!)
- - Milk's Favorite Cookie
- Stormtracker94 (talk · contribs) 11:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
- Theonlysilentbob
- bob rulz (talk) 03:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- SteelersFan-94 19:40, 8 December 2008 (UTC) _ live in an area that has a-lot of tornados, so I can get some good pics
- All2341
- Showtime2009 (talk) 06:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- Blocked indefinitely for sockpuppetry. Ks0stm (T•C•G) 23:03, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
[edit] User box
To show you are a member, add the {{User Severe Weather}} userbox to your userpage:
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[edit] Core Articles
| Article | Need | Rationale | Quality | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Severe weather | Top | Our top-level article | C | Discussion has started on Severe weather's structure and organization. See talk page. |
| Thunderstorm | Top | GA |
Has passed the Good article criteria. But of course, there are always improvements to be made | |
| Tornado | Top | FA |
Passed a Featured Article Review. Keep maintained. | |
| Derecho | Top | C | Needs inline citations and a mild expansion | |
| Hail | Top | GA |
Has passed the Good article criteria. But of course, there are always improvements to be made | |
| Tri-State Tornado | Top | C | Needs inline citations and an expansion | |
| Daultipur-Salturia Tornado | Top | Start | Needs a MAJOR expansion beyond the measily stub it is now | |
| Super Outbreak | Top | B | Needs copyedit, and should be modified to be an easier read for the layman | |
| Supercell | Top | C | Needs global coverage, few more inline citations, and better structure | |
| Downburst | High | C | Needs inline citations and a minor expansion | |
| Lightning | Top | B | Getting better, very long, may need to split into sub-articles |
[edit] Format for articles
- See WikiProject Severe weather/Tornado for the desired article format for tornado outbreaks.
- Note on units: All quantities should be expressed in both imperial and metric units, regardless of the affected area. The primary measurements used in this project are imperial units, although primary-metric can be used in events that only affect regions that use only the metric system (i.e. Canada, Mexico, most of Europe). For example, to show winds of 50 mph, it should be listed as "50 mph (80 km/h)" in most circumstances. Rounding should be done to reasonable levels.
- Note on galleries: It is not desirable to have an image gallery in a main article. However, linking to a gallery on Wikimedia commons using {{commons}} is very helpful. To upload a file to the Commons, click here (you must create/have a commons account to do this). For instructions on creating a commons gallery, see here.
[edit] Templates
See also Category:Severe weather templates
[edit] Infoboxes
- {{Infobox tornado outbreak}} provides a template for brief information at the top of the page for tornado outbreaks, including the date
- {{Infobox tornado single}} provides the same information for events involving a single tornado
- {{Infobox cyclone}} provides information for cyclones with both a snow storm and tornado outbreak impact
(Infoboxes for other events are planned)
[edit] Stub templates
- {{Climate-stub}} and the associated stub category Category:Atmospheric science stubs
- This template should be added to the end of stub articles which fall under the category of general meteorology or climatology.
- {{Climate-bio-stub}} and the associated stub category Category:Atmospheric scientist stubs
- This template should be added to the end of stub articles which are biographies of a meteorologist or a climatologist.
- {{Weather-stub}} and the associated stub category Category:Weather event stubs
- This template should be added only to the end of stub articles which describe a specific historical weather event.
[edit] Data templates
- {{Tornado Chart}} for tornado events to show the number of tornadoes produced and their intensity
- {{Tornado chart small}}, same as above, but much smaller. Mainly for Tornado year pages.
[edit] Current weather templates
- {{Current disaster}} for ongoing storm events. Should be used for major blizzard/winter storms with watches and warnings, major flood events or for a Severe Thunderstorm or Tornado Watch when conditions are very dangerous (usually, but not always, a PDS watch).
[edit] Talk page template
- {{Severe}} should appear on the top of the talk page of every article covered by this project.
[edit] Classification links
[edit] Existing links
[edit] Categories
[edit] Lists
[edit] Main articles
[edit] General topics
[edit] Phenomena
[edit] Severe weather events
[edit] Meteorologists
[edit] 
WP:Featured articles
- Tornado (March 26, 2007) TFA May 24, 2007
- 1999 Sydney hailstorm (November 26, 2007) TFA April 14, 2008
- 2006 Westchester County tornado (December 21, 2008) TFA July 12, 2009
[edit] WP:Featured lists
[edit] 
Featured article candidates (FAC)
[edit] WP:Featured list candidates
[edit] WP:Peer review
- None currently
[edit] 
Good articles (GA)
- General topics and terminology
| Article | Date Listed |
|---|---|
| Bounded weak echo region | March 27, 2008 |
| Rainband | January 10, 2009 |
| Squall line | June 7, 2009 |
| Wake low | June 10, 2009 |
| Tornado myths | July 1, 2009 |
| Mesoscale convective system | July 2, 2009 |
| Waterspout | August 28, 2009 |
| Hail | August 29, 2009 |
| Outflow boundary | September 3, 2009 |
| Storm Prediction Center | April 10, 2010 |
| Outflow (meteorology) | April 23, 2010 |
- Severe weather events
[edit] 
Good article nominations (GAN)
None
[edit] 
New articles related to severe weather
[edit] Pages needing attention
- Woodstock, Ontario tornado of August 1979
- 1993 Virginia tornado outbreak - Has been cleaned up, but due to references to "The southern part of the city," needs attention from someone with knowledge of the outbreak.
- 1936 Cordele-Greensboro tornado outbreak-Still needs many more references
- Tornado outbreak
- Lubbock tornado
- Candlestick Park tornado - Stub article on an F5 that traveled 202.5 miles, needs MAJOR expansion
- 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak
[edit] Tornado table incomplete
- 1957 Fargo tornado
- May 1957 Mid-South tornado outbreak
- 1965 Twin Cities tornado outbreak
- 1968 Tracy tornado
- Lubbock tornado
- 1972 Portland-Vancouver tornado
- 1975 Canton, Illinois tornado
- Bossier City, Louisiana tornado
- Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado
- Saragosa, Texas tornado
