Talk:Tornado Alley
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[edit] Caps or uncaps?
Is "tornado alley" as the subject of this article capitalized or uncapitalized? It's put both ways in the article, and I'd like to possibly resolve the ambiguity. SchuminWeb (Talk) 21:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A Contradition
This article seems to be contradictory. The article states that Missouri and Arkansas lie entirely within tornado alley but the outline map of tornado alley has both those states entirely outside of tornado alley. Which is it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pammb (talk • contribs) 23:32, 23 December 2006 (UTC).
- Clicking on the map with the red outline takes you to its info page at The Commons, where there is a description of what the outline means, datawise. I added the description to the map's caption here. I guess there are various ways to define the region. Pfly 03:20, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
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- I just tried to improve the article, hopefully I did. What I think is important to understand is there is no one official definition of tornado alley, if you Google that term and find 10 different maps of it within 2 minutes. I tried to make this point clear in my re-org of the article and removed any language that said any one area was definitely in it. What's ironic to me is that the most generally accepted form of tornado alley seems to be the swath of area east of the Rocky Mountains from Texas northward to Nebraska, yet the worst tornado outbreak and the worst single tornado both occured outside of this zone. Gopher backer 04:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Questioned Validity
"In the heart of tornado alley, building codes are often stricter than those for other parts of the U.S., requiring strengthened roofs and more secure connections between the building and its foundation."
The above statement may be true to a certain extent but my personal observations, admittedly extremely limited, do not offer any proof for the declaration. Considering the HUGE number of regulating authorities, basically, one per geo-political area establishing local building codes, it seems to little old pudgy me it would be difficult to ascertain the level of "strictness" of building codes within "tornado alley."68.13.60.210 (talk) 17:22, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Tornado Season
Why is this an "incorrect" term? Surely it's just a colloquial term for a time when there are a high number of tornadoes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.112.70.244 (talk) 05:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
