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A barnstar for you!

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
You have been on an absolute tear! You've done a great job of fixing up and adding tornadoes from 2007 and beyond! All I ask is that you use the newest table format. Other than that, you're good! ChessEric 20:09, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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The Special Barnstar
Y'know, I just wanted to stop by and say that I'm grateful for your hard work on lists of tornadoes – particularly List of United States tornadoes in April 2024! Great work, keep it up! :) ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 02:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

2007 Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass tornado

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You found a source that said that these two tornado events were connected. While I don't necessarily doubt that finding, I really need to know where exactly in the article it is. I haven't studied Spanish in a long time, so I don't know where it is. Also, with NCEI report saying that these were two separate tornadoes, we got to figure out which source should be used here. ChessEric 20:38, 19 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

From the source I labeled, I have these areas in the article (with their English translations!):
Page 4, Paragraph 3 - "The participating investigators conducted an extensive tour of the affected areas to identify the path of the tornado in the Piedras Negras area and traveled to the area of Eagle Pass, Texas, to also recognize the affected area of Rosita Valley (Rosita South) in the same Maverick County that was also damaged by the tornado to interview local officials. and collect information on the effects of the passage of the meteor that would be useful to generate some comparative appreciations."
Page 6, Paragraph 1 - "On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 24, 2007, a storm system called a supercell appeared in the north of the country that generated a tornado of multiple vortices that developed a devastating path with a little more than 1 kilometer in diameter through the area of Villa de Fuente in the urban context of Piedras Negras, Coahuila and advanced a little more than 22 kilometers to reach the residential area of Rosita Valley (Rosita South) in Eagle Pass, Texas."
Page 6, Paragraph 3 - "In field interviews, we found descriptions of the formation of the tornado in the Acoros residential colony to the west of the city of Piedras Negras, following a trajectory to the east, causing damage to the Deportivo Fraccionamiento and the most severe damage to Villa de Fuente, then passing through the Ejido Villa de Fuente where it stopped generating destruction in the urban area. Moving forward through unpopulated areas in a southeasterly direction crossing the Rio Grande, to reach inhabited areas again in the aforementioned area of Rosita Valley jurisdiction of Eagle Pass, Maverick County in Texas."
And then Page 24 on the paper has a map of their estimated path of the tornado.
Personally, as much of a used source as the NCEI is, I think this paper is better solely because of the fact it is a research paper and it was published after the NCEI release. It's up to you which you think would be better, I'm fine with any change! Timcigar12 (talk) 22:19, 19 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Alright. Thanks for letting me know. I think a second opinion is needed on this. ChessEric 01:56, 21 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For continually updating the list pages. I was going to add the rest of the June tornadoes tonight, but you beat me to it! Keep up the good work! ChessEric 03:49, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
I recently contracted COVID, so I was unable to update the Hurricane Beryl chart. I really appreciate you updating it. ChessEric 00:51, 22 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

St. Louis tornado outbreak of February 1959 table reformatting

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Given the historical significance of the 2025 St. Louis tornado with regards to the 1959 St. Louis tornado, I'm going to attempt to bring the St. Louis tornado outbreak of February 1959 article to GA status. Can you help by reformatting the table? I would appreciate it. ChessEric 22:05, 3 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

You betcha! Timcigar12 (talk) 03:58, 4 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! ChessEric 13:56, 4 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
I hate to put you on the spot, but can you go to the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Severe weather page and see what other monthly articles you can fix up? I specifically think that the list articles that only need their tables modernized are to preferred. You don’t need to do it all right now; take your time. ChessEric 00:37, 5 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Zero hassle to me at all my man. I've just been working on adding the appropriate state categories to every outbreak article the past two days and I can put that on hold and the table cleanup since that's relatively fast. Timcigar12 (talk) 19:55, 5 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
I saw that. I do the same thing sometimes. You have been a God send to this project. Thanks for your contributions! ChessEric 20:25, 5 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

A Helpful Guide!

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Sometimes, it's hard for me to find a way to create a wildfire-related page. So, I sometimes need something to guide me through. Although, I think it's only right to share my WP:Guide with multiple different users. So, here you go---User:CostalCal/Guide! I hope you read this next time you create or edit a wildfire-related page. CostalCal (talk) 18:35, 16 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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The Wildfire Barnstar
Thank you for your contributions on 2025 United States wildfires and 2026 United States wildfires articles. You make my task of checking Watch Duty every day easier. CostalCal (talk) 00:48, 18 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for your consistent and fast work keeping the current tornado pages up to date! You're doing an amazing job. Chris ☁️(talk - contribs) 21:10, 13 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hurricane Carla tornado outbreak

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The Hurricane Carla article is currently being improved and the Hurricane Carla tornado outbreak article is being merged into it. Can you modernize the tables, please? ChessEric 17:15, 6 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Yea for sure! Might be in a day or two but I'll see when I can do it. Timcigar12 (talk) 01:32, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Funny, I was going to ask the same thing about Hurricane Frances. The old outbreak page was merged, but I want to bring back the tables before taking Frances to FAC. Or if you can point me to an article with the proper modern tables, I can try doing it myself. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:29, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

I can do it no worries! I'm pretty fast with this stuff now after doing it for so long it'll be easier haha. Timcigar12 (talk) 16:30, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
Amazing! Hurricane_Frances#Tornado_outbreak - this is where the tables should go. Thanks for the help in advance. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:50, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hey I just wanted to catch up since it's been a few weeks now. I had two vacations I had gone on with family and friends and now I'm gonna try punching out those tables for you in the next 2 days. I just have to finish part of the 7th and the 8th and then all will be good. Sorry for not letting you know sooner. Timcigar12 (talk) 23:18, 25 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for helping on Hurricane Frances! You’re welcome to join the FAC nomination in the near future, since that’s a huge help in organizing the article. Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 14:38, 30 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Oh, is there a way of making the tornado tables collapsable? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:53, 30 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not that I know of... I never have done that before but I'm sure there's got to be a way. If I have some time later tonight I'll try to take a look. Timcigar12 (talk) 21:54, 30 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

It turns out there was an easy way to make the tables collapsable. One last thing. Is there a reason the note has "All dates are based on the local time zone where the tornado touched down; however, all times are in Coordinated Universal Time for consistency." Would anything major change if it was all in UTC? Because I think one note at the beginning of the article that "All times and dates are based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)." That would also cover the met history. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:37, 2 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Yea you probably can remove it. Since I've been doing the tornado tables that's always been a part of it from even before me. All tornadoes occurred in EDT so it shouldn't ultimately matter if you just have it at the beginning of the article instead of by the table I suppose! All the times in the table are UTC time converted from EST since NCEI data only uses standard time in their database. Hope that clears it up. Timcigar12 (talk) 23:41, 2 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

June 2026

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Information icon Hello, I'm Tornado Elliott. I noticed that you made a comment on the page Talk:List of United States tornadoes from May to June 2026 that didn't seem very civil, so it may have been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Reason: I openly admitted that tables aren't my strong suit, which is exactly why Wikipedia is a collaborative project—we rely on each other's different strengths to improve pages. If you'd like to help build the tables or add the DAT sources mentioned above, your help would be greatly appreciated. Tornado Elliott (Yelp for help?) 18:27, 4 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

I apologize if my question came off as rude to you, that wasn't my intention.
The main reason I asked that question is I noticed a trend on a almost every tornado-related draft you've created on all your accounts. You tend to start a draft with a lead and an infobox and then leave it as such until (if) another editor were to come along and finish the draft based off of your shell. I've seen this over the course of the past several months now to where I'm intrigued in learning why you do this approach.
I fully agree Wikipedia is a collaborative project and welcome any additional help for these projects with open arms! At the same time, I am confused to why a draft is started/created and then immediately after a couple of edits is fully abandoned (I can provide examples if you need me to). That leads me to wondering what the intended purpose of the draft you started is. Since they're not actively WIP, I rarely have seen other editors help to edit those drafts.
I don't want to discourage you from stopping drafts all together, I just want to understand what your reasoning is for starting them and then leaving them for others to work on. Given how often other editors end up completing the majority of the content, I think it's a fair question to ask.
As for the May to June 2026 list, I've been actively maintaining tables since my vacation in the middle of the month. I've been the main contributor to the monthly lists for the past 3 years now so that's kind of why I was confused when you came along out of the blue.
Again, I truly did not mean any offense with my initial comment but I can see why it came off as rude to you and I apologize for that. I just wanted to understand the pattern of what I've been seeing go on for the past few months. No hard feelings! Timcigar12 (talk) 02:45, 5 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
You have no right to call out Tim, you constantly create drafts that are useless, and your best articles are very incomplete, your lucky you still have the privilege to edit on WP, don’t take it for granted - TREF4 The Rochelle EF4 (talk) 03:09, 19 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Monthly Wiki-Weather Review - Issue 1 (September 1, 2026)

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Volume I, Issue 1, September 1, 2026
←(Previous issues) · 1 · 2 →

The Monthly Wiki-Weather Review

This is the first edition for what will hopefully be a monthly newsletter involving Wikipedia's weather articles, including the severe weather and tropical cyclones projects. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject. If you wish to receive or discontinue your subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. Past editions can be viewed here.

Development, Reminders, and Updates

Series of weather topics that need expansion The following articles are the earliest in a series of lists/articles, and including the gap going back to the previous entry in the series. These are articles that need to be written.

Of note, the yearly "Weather of YYYY" could be a useful parent article for every weather article. For a well-written (and well-sourced) example, see this timeline in the Weather of 2023 article.

Image of the month

Devastating floods, possibly caused by a glacial collapse, hit the China–Nepal border on August 26. These floods destroyed numerous settlements and killed over 1,000 people (with thousands still missing). The above image is a Landsat 9 view of debris flow from the floods.

Selected new articles

The following articles were written/published this year. It excludes any of sub-articles within Weather of 2026.

Tropical cyclone Merge-a-thon

Longtime editors and lurkers might have noticed an uptick in the number of article mergers this year. A discussion in December 2025 talked about articles for fish storms or were otherwise had minor impacts. As Hurricane Noah summarized, "if a storm isn't being discussed after the fact for meteorological notability and impacts were minor or nil, there shouldn't be an article. Since then, 8 featured articles and 76 good articles have been merged. In a recent AFD, Quxyz mentioned their own minimum threshold for a tropical cyclone article (1,000 words and 20,000 bytes).

Help requested for specific topics

There are a few ongoing projects that are needed in Wiki-Project weather, separate from any requested articles.

  • After years of discussion on standardizing the colors for tropical cyclone tracks, there is an ongoing project to replace the roughly 2,200 track maps across the hundreds of storm/season articles. One of the members helping with the track maps, 2003 LN6 (talk · contribs), estimated that "about 15–20% of the historic track maps are recolored properly, but progress is being made. I have personally been working on the North Atlantic tracks, but I have observed the work of many others as well."
    Another member working on older Atlantic and season track maps, JasonHo1222 (talk · contribs), asked, "can I be quoted in the newsletter too?" Thanks to 2003 LN6, JasonHo1222, and all of the other users helping with this task.
  • The tropical cyclone season button bars have outdated coding that should ideally be replaced. The talk page goes into detail, but basically swapping out two parts of the template ("List of storms" and "Statistics" sub-articles, which we don't have anymore) in favor of the yearly "Weather of YYYY" and "Tropical cyclones in YYYY" articles.
  • List of tropical cyclones producing snow - inspired by the recent Hurricane Lala that produced snowfall in Hawaii, there is a consensus that such an article could be useful.

Comments or suggestions? This is the first of what will hopefully be a long-running newsletter. If you have any suggestions or complaints (such as them being in a different order in the section header), click on the previous links or try the newsletter talk page.




Eoline 13:15, 1 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

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you reverted my edit, and to be fair, while there wasn't a section on it, the thumbnail image and the caption both described the tornado. Maybe we could consider adding a section to the article? I am currently working on my 2007 Enterprise tornado article, but I will consider adding a section later. WXchaser (Say what?) 00:50, 23 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

also, in the section: Possible EF5 intensity, it says, see also: Disagreements on the intensity of tornadoes. If my edit was rightfully reverted, then this should also be removed. WXchaser (Say what?) 00:53, 23 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
See this comment on the talk page for said article of why it isn't included. Timcigar12 (talk) 01:15, 23 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Monthly Wiki-Weather Review - Issue 2 (October 1, 2026)

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Volume I, Issue 2, October 1, 2026
←(Previous issues) · 2 · 3 →

The Monthly Wiki-Weather Review Issue 2: Electric Boogaloo Edition

This is the second edition the monthly newsletter involving Wikipedia's weather articles, including the severe weather and tropical cyclones projects. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject. If you wish to receive or discontinue your subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. Past editions can be viewed here.

Editors: Hurricanehink (HH), Eoline (E)

New Featured and Good Content

Since the last issue, the following became good articles :

Selected new articles

The following articles were written/published in the last month (or were missed). It excludes any of sub-articles within Weather of 2026.

Development, Reminders, and Updates

  • The NCDC Storm Events database recently updated, which changed all URL's. Although E changed most of them, there might be some old ones that still need to be fixed.
  • The Atlantic hurricane reanalysis was updated on September 16 for 1971–75. Several editors helped to update the articles, although some articles still need to be updated, such as adding summaries of the new systems to the season articles.
  • A recent discussion found consensus for removing most TCFA's (tropical cyclone formation alerts) from typhoon season articles. As the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is not the official agency for the basin, and many season articles are too long, this bit of information is generally not needed. Exceptions unclude when it's the JTWC peak for a system, such as a JMA-only TS. There is also a discussion about removing the JTWC term "Super Typhoon", partly due to PAGASA using that term, and because JMA uses "Violent typhoon". This would affect infoboxes and the leads of some articles. Future goals including using JMA data for track maps.
  • There is a discussion about removing non-European tornadoes from the annual "List of European tornadoes", stemming from a discussion about tornadoes in Turkey, Russia, and north Africa that are not technically part of Europe.
  • If you see new editors (and even current editors), remember not to be bite-y, and try and keep things civil and welcoming. Some people might edit for the first time when there is a major weather event in the news. It can be helpful to reach out to users directly. HH sometimes use a phrase like, "I see you have an interest in weather articles. While your edit might technically be true, it did not include a source. If you're interested in editing, I suggest you create a username so you can join the hundreds of editors working on the thousands of hurricane/tornado/blizzard/drought/haboob articles." (OK maybe just one of those weather types)

Image of the month - Hurricane Polo offshore Mexico

Hurricane Polo became the second-strongest recorded Pacific hurricane on September 22, when Hurricane Hunters recorded a minimum central pressure of 892 mbar (26.3 inHg). Polo attained Category 5 status three times before weakening and striking northwestern Mexico twice.

Tasks/projects from previous newsletter - Issue 1 had a section for the series of weather articles. This included seasons or weather events by year, such as from Weather of 1946 to 1985 and from 1985 to 2000. Other ongoing tasks include updating tropical cyclone track maps, button bar templates, and changing the coding for the season infobox template to allow for violent typhoons.

WCNA 2026 by E

The 2026 edition of WikiConference North America was held in Edmonton, Canada, throughout the week of September 21, with at least one project member in attendance. Main topics included discussion of Wikimedia administration, WikiPortraits, and Wikimedia Commons. Interested editors are invited to read through this presentation, which was presented by User:Z1720 during the conference; it discusses how to write featured articles.

A more complete weather encyclopedia

Although Wikipedia isn't specifically a weather encyclopedia, it fulfills that role to an extent. The "List of [weather events] by area" series is getting finished one by one, even if there are still a lot to go. The following areas are among the most complete:

Many areas could have a variety of lists. There's a draft for Tornadoes in Florida, which, if published, would join the above list. There is also a draft for Snow in Texas, which would also add Texas to the above list, assuming you counted the dab and quasi-article that is the List of Texas hurricanes (which you could help by adding climatology, the deadliest Texas tornadoes, and a list of (E)F5 tornadoes in the state). If you're interested in working on one of the potential location-based lists of weather impacts in an area, be bold and try it (maybe starting with a draft), or ask HH for help.

The Merge-a-Thon Sweeps Up Tornadoes

The previous newsletter mentioned the tropical cyclone merge-a-thon in which around 100 storm articles have been merged. There has also been an increase in proposed mergers of tornado-related articles to their parent tornado outbreak. Some of the main arguments have been about sustained lasting coverage (six months after the event), and whether the individual articles are a content fork from the outbreak article. There remains a need to codify tornado notability standards, with regards to outbreak and single tornado articles.

The Paradox of Tolerance by HH

It's important to assume good faith and be open-minded/welcoming as we build a more perfect encyclopedia. HH admits he has pushed his own preferences a bit too much at times. Discussions need to remain civil. But the Paradox of Tolerance can lead to bad outcomes. For instance, there has been a rise in articles written by AI, which is not allowed. Now that Wikipedia is over 25 years old, it has its fair share of people who were blocked, including sockpuppets trying to disrupt the positive legacy we've all built. That does not mean to assume that all new users are either using AI or are sockpuppets! Most editors started just like you. Still, if it seems like users are baiting you to engage in discussion, that might be in bad faith. At those times, be sure to take a deep breath, and remember that there's no deadline. Sometimes, a troublesome user will out themselves and get blocked, whether due to AI-writing or other bad habits. "If it looks/swims/quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. If you have evidence someone is abusing more than one Wikipedia account, see Sockpuppet investigations.

Random fun thing found during Wikipedia research While working on Hurricane Agnes, 12george1* found this legendary document from the NHC archives:

That the guest editor cut the tip of his middle finger of his left hand off this evening making a salad, and has left blood all over the typewriter, and that this finger is the one that hits all the e's, d's, c's and a few other things and is now very sore. I quit!

!!!!! @@@@@ ##### $$$$$ %%%%% ¢¢¢¢¢ &&&&& ***** ((((((

Don't be like this guy and make sure you're all careful editing!
*Due to a mishap in the previous newsletter, HH would like to formally apologize for linking users in the newsletter, and causing users to receive dozens of notifications. From now on, only the newsletter editors will be linked (so you can message us if you wanted).

Comments or suggestions? This is the second edition of what will hopefully be a long-running newsletter. If you have any suggestions or complaints (such as them being in a different order in the section header), click on the previous links or try the newsletter talk page.




Eoline 13:16, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply