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		Importance
Severe weather articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1		1			2
	GA		2	7	3		12
	B	4	8	16	14		42
	Start	6	19	70	64		159
	Stub	1	6	21	58	1	87
	List		1	11	20	1	33
	Assessed	12	36	126	159	2	335
	Unassessed					2	2
	Total	12	36	126	159	4	337

[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] Parentage

WikiProject Meteorology is the parent project of this WikiProject.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Related Wikiportals

Portal:Weather

[edit] Participants

[edit] Active members

Running On Brains 07:18, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
CrazyC83 02:10, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
WxGopher (formerly Gopher backer)
Evolauxia
Southern Illinois SKYWARN
Theonlysilentbob
JForget
bob rulz (talk) 03:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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)
Chukonu xbow
Rvk41 (talk) 06:05, 14 May 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)

[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)

To show you are a member, add the {{User Severe Weather}} userbox to your userpage:

This user is a member of WikiProject Severe weather.

[edit] Former members

[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] Format for articles

Lead section (with infobox if applicable)
Main body
- For a weather event, this should include a summary of events leading up to, during, and after the event. It should also emphasize its impact and significance in the time that it occurred.
- For a type of weather, phenomenon, or theory, this should include a history of its observation, a description of the phenomenon, and its significance.
- For a biographical article, this should include a brief overview of the person's life, with an in-depth look at their contributions to meteorology.
See also
- This should include links (within wikipedia) to related phenomena, events, people, or other articles pertinent to the subject.
References
External Links

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.

Tornado outbreak format

Note: A proposal has been made to revamp the tornado outbreak fromat at the tornado outbreak format talk page.

[edit] 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).

{{Ongoing weather}} in place of the "current event" tag for ongoing meteorology events.

[edit] Talk page template

{{Severe}} should appear on the top of the talk page of every article covered by this project.

[edit] Core Articles

Article	Need	Rationale	Quality	Comments
Severe weather	Top	Our top-level article	Start	Needs a major expansion
Thunderstorm	Top		B	Ok, needs a copyedit, inline citation and some more references
Tornado	Top		FA	Done! But there's always room for improvement...
Derecho	Top		Start	Needs inline citation, mild expansion, and a general copyedit
Hail	Top		Start	Needs expansion, wikification, citations, the whole lot
Tri-State Tornado	Top		Start	Needs inline citations and an expansion
Daultipur-Salturia Tornado	Top		Stub	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		B	Looks pretty good, needs global coverage and a few more inline citations
Downburst	High		B	Needs inline citations and a minor expansion
Lightning	Top		B	Getting better, very long, may need to split into sub-articles

Classification Links:
Category:FA-Class severe weather articles	Category:Category-Class severe weather articles
Category:A-Class severe weather articles	Category:Unrated-Class severe weather articles
Category:GA-Class severe weather articles	Category:No-Class severe weather articles
Category:B-Class severe weather articles	Category:Unassessed severe weather articles
Category:Start-Class severe weather articles	Category:Top-importance severe weather articles
Category:Stub-Class severe weather articles	Category:High-importance severe weather articles
Category:Disambig-Class severe weather articles	Category:Mid-importance severe weather articles
Category:Future-Class severe weather articles	Category:Low-importance severe weather articles
Category:Current-Class severe weather articles	Category:No-importance severe weather articles
Category:Template-Class severe weather articles	Category:Unassessed importance severe weather articles