Talk:Severe weather terminology (United States)

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[edit] Colors of the Hazardous weather statements table

Ouch. The orange and yellow scheme is rather severe. Since there has been some conflict about reverting this change, I'm asking Tawker or 24.214.57.91 to revert back to the original color scheme. -- Kenheut 23:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of this article

This article was developed to establish a more comprehensive and consistent article to replace several short stubs. This article is about how the U.S. National Weather service defines such terms within the United States, i.e. what does the NWS mean when the NWS issues a tornado warning. It is recommended that other definitions be clearly differentiated from the NWS definitions, or placed in separate articles as appropriate. Please cite sources for all NWS terms. Thanks. --Wyatts 16:01, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Consolidation

Nearly all the articles in this category are very short, definition-type articles that do not seem to warrant separate articles in an encyclopedia. It might be better to expand the article on Severe weather terminology to include all of these terms/definitions. That would result in a single, substantial encyclopedia article, rather than a lot of short definition-type articles. Each existing article would then need to be redirected to the main article.

Right now, the Severe weather terminology article does not contain everything and needs some clean up, but could easily be expanded/improved.

Comments on this suggestion would be appreciated. If there are no objections in the next week or so, I will go ahead and do the merge. --Wyatts 16:01, 13 August 2005 (UTC) (forgot to sign earlier)

I'm confused with the severe local storms. Many of these seem redundant. If there is a reason they are there we should have an intro to explain what that section is for. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 01:35, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fujita Scale

Can someone please note the upcoming update to the Fujita Scale (F-Scale) to the Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF-Scale) which goes into effect February of 2007?

[edit] Beaufort Scale

A table is given, but no Beaufort numbers, nor how they relate to small-craft advisories and warnings. Cwolfsheep 20:10, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fujita Scales

I will soon add the EF-scale to the page. The old F-scale also needs some touchups. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stormyboiler (talk • contribs) 02:15, 3 March 2007 (UTC). Stormyboiler 02:15, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Snow shower

I merged in the defintion of Snow shower from the Snow shower article, which I've now redirected here. I added it to the list of general weather conditions as defined by the NWS, even though the definition I added was not from the nws. Because it wasn't, I stuck it at the bottom of the list, out of alphabetic order. This ought to be fixed up. I tried looking at the nws website to find their definition of this term, but couldn't find it. Such is life. --Xyzzyplugh 14:22, 5 April 2007 (UTC)


I added the NWS defeniton of Snow shower. A Snow shower is actually a mod-heavy, brief, localized snowfall.Stormyboiler 00:14, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Need new article to address products

I find this article a bit too expansive given the title "Severe weather terminology". I would not expect to see a listing and descriptions of every event-driven National Weather Service product in an article titled severe weather terminology. I suggest a new article titled "National Weather Service products" to handle descriptions of every product they issue. That way we can divert the piecemeal product listing from this article to that article with a Main Article link. It would also help clean up the article on NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards since they are also reinventing the wheel with a bunch of product descriptions.

Secondly, I see various references to non-United States products and standards in this article, even though it has "United States" in the title. Why is that in here? Should the title be more broad and not mention "United States" if we want to discuss the various standards in other countries? JLamb 03:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering this as well. The aritcle is titled Severe weather terminology (United States), but:
  • What does the TORRO tornado intensity scale have to do with the United States? Also, does the Beaufort wind scale used by the United States at all? (I have no idea since I live nowhere near an ocean)
  • The hail section, though interesting, seems to belong more in the Hail article than this one (unless we only list the .75 in or larger hail}

I would suggest that we either eliminate these sections, or else rename the article to something that better describes with it's about. I actually think this article is off to a very good start, and with some referencing and clarification on the above items would possibly be a good Featured List candidate. Gopher backer 16:38, 5 October 2007 (UTC)