Talk:June 2008 tornado outbreak sequence

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[edit] Chicago suburbs

NWS Chicago is now reporting that they confirmed seven different tornadoes hit the Chicago suburbs yesterday, and that they'll be posting a set of track maps at about 5PM CDT today. (As a side note, I'm getting vague reports on the news of a weak tornado hitting the Flint suburbs today--55 years, to the day, after the Flint-Beecher tornado.) Rdfox 76 (talk) 21:14, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 10

I would think that this would be the last day (MDT risk from Ontario to PA) for this article (as far as the severe weather activity, probably not the flooding) as all of this storminess will move out of the way. --JForget 13:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

From this system at least it looks like it. Tomorrow's MDT is for a separate system. CrazyC83 (talk) 00:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Should this article be merged with June 2008 Midwest floods?

  1. The the same systems are responsible for each, in which case having one article is usually a WP Meteorology standard.
  2. Most of the Non-tornadic events section in this article is about the flooding.
  3. IMO, this article is kind of border-line for being article worthy. Yes, there have been 73 confirmed tornadoes so far which is above the general threshold, but that is over the course of a week (probably will end up being around 15-18 per day, which is far below). Only 2 of the tornadoes have been F3, and only 10 F2, which means that 61 out of the 73 have been weak tornadoes, and there have been no fatalities.

I guess what I'm saying is I think by itself this article is kind of non-notable, but if you add the flooding event in with it, that makes more sense to me. Thoughts? WxGopher (talk) 03:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Maybe we should add the word derecho in the title, because there have been at least 3 major derecho events throught the time period, the one in the Middle Atlantic on June 4, the one in the central Plains on June 5 and the one in Michigan and Ontario on June 8. Other major near-derecho events included in Kansas on June 3, in Ohio on June 9 and in Quebec and upstate New York on June 10. As far for the tornadoes, there are still a lot of unconfirmed tornadoes left to be rated. I think most of the Kansas tornadoes were not rated, much of Missouri and central were still not rated as well as several in Iowa and possibly the Dakotas and elsewhere in the Midwest. This could easily exceed 100 tornadoes. JForget 12:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
73 tornadoes (which is still preliminary - it will probably be more when the final numbers come in) is certainly article-worthy. I do agree that it could use work and that each of the three major derechos (the June 4 Mid-Atlantic derecho, the June 5 Plains serial derecho and the June 8 Great Lakes derecho) should have their own section at the bottom. CrazyC83 (talk) 15:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)