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Scope Events that met the National Weather Service criteria for a severe thunderstorm:
| Thunderstorm and tornado articles by quality and importance | ||||||||
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| Quality | Importance | |||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Other | ??? | Total | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | |||||||
| 12 | 12 | |||||||
| 5 | 10 | 32 | 45 | 2 | 94 | |||
| B | 11 | 13 | 40 | 43 | 1 | 5 | 113 | |
| C | 12 | 29 | 59 | 132 | 1 | 18 | 251 | |
| Start | 1 | 28 | 90 | 188 | 1 | 19 | 327 | |
| Stub | 3 | 29 | 4 | 36 | ||||
| List | 4 | 11 | 83 | 138 | 1 | 43 | 280 | |
| Category | 230 | 230 | ||||||
| Disambig | 18 | 18 | ||||||
| File | 134 | 134 | ||||||
| Portal | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Project | 13 | 13 | ||||||
| Redirect | 1 | 12 | 36 | 99 | 148 | |||
| Template | 113 | 113 | ||||||
| Other | 1 | 2 | 9 | 12 | ||||
| Assessed | 34 | 92 | 320 | 619 | 637 | 1 | 91 | 1,794 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Total | 34 | 92 | 320 | 620 | 637 | 1 | 94 | 1,798 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 3,382 | Ω = 4.10 | ||||||
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.
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You can award anyone who contributed greatly to the severe weather-related articles by using this template here: {{subst:The Tornado Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}} or {{subst:The Tornado Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~|2=alt}}
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| Article | Need | Rationale | Quality | Comments |
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| Tornado | Top | B | Former Featured Article. Return to Featured Article status. | |
| 2011 Super Outbreak | Top | C | Delisted good article. Improve back to Good Article and beyond. | |
| 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado | Top | Has passed the Good article criteria. But of course, there are always improvements to be made | ||
| 2013 El Reno tornado | Top | Has passed the Good article criteria. But of course, there are always improvements to be made | ||
| Thunderstorm | Top | Has passed the Good article criteria. But of course, there are always improvements to be made | ||
| Hail | Top | Has passed the Good article criteria. But of course, there are always improvements to be made | ||
| Lightning | Top | B | Getting better, very long, may need to split into sub-articles | |
| Tri-State Tornado | Top | B | Needs inline citations and an expansion | |
| 1974 Super Outbreak | Top | B | Needs copyedit, and should be modified to be an easier read for the layman | |
| Derecho | Top | C | Needs inline citations and a mild expansion | |
| Severe weather | Top | Our top-level article | C | Discussion has started on Severe weather's structure and organization. See talk page. |
| Supercell | Top | B | Upgraded to B-class. Continue to improve to good article and beyond. | |
| Downburst | High | C | Needs inline citations and a minor expansion | |
| Daulatpur–Saturia tornado | Top | Start | Needs a MAJOR expansion beyond the measly stub it is now | |
| List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes | Top | List | Needs continued improvements to bring to FL-class. | |
| List of tornadoes in the 2011 Super Outbreak | Top | List | Needs continued improvements to bring to FL-class. |
(Infoboxes for other events are planned)
(Pending conversion)
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| {{User interest severe weather}} |
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{{WikiProject Weather|thunderstorms-and-tornadoes-task-force=yes}} should appear on the top of the talk page of every article covered by this project.An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Weather|thunderstorms-and-tornadoes-task-force=yes}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.
The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
| FA | (for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | ||
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| FL | (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | ||
| A | (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | ||
| GA | (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | ||
| B | (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | B | |
| C | (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | C | |
| Start | (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | Start | |
| Stub | (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | Stub | |
| List | (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | List | |
| NA | (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | NA | |
| ??? | (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Thunderstorm and tornado articles category) | ??? |
| FM | (for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | ||
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| Category | (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | Category | |
| Draft | (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | Draft | |
| File | (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | File | |
| Portal | (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | Portal | |
| Project | (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | Project | |
| Template | (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | Template |
| Disambig | (for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | Disambig | |
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| Redirect | (for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class Thunderstorm and tornado pages category) | Redirect |
An article's importance assessment is generated from the |importance= parameter in the {{WikiProject Weather}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Weather|importance=???|thunderstorms-and-tornadoes-task-force=yes}}The following values may be used for the |importance= parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
| Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Thunderstorm and tornado articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Thunderstorm and tornado articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Thunderstorm and tornado articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Thunderstorm and tornado articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds pages to Category:NA-importance Thunderstorm and tornado pages) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Thunderstorm and tornado articles) | ??? |
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| Article | Date Listed |
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| Bounded weak echo region | March 27, 2008 |
| Rainband | January 10, 2009 |
| Squall line | June 7, 2009 |
| Wake low | June 10, 2009 |
| Tornado myths | July 1, 2009 |
| Mesoscale convective system | July 2, 2009 |
| Waterspout | August 28, 2009 |
| Hail | August 29, 2009 |
| Outflow boundary | September 3, 2009 |
| Storm Prediction Center | April 10, 2010 |
| Outflow (meteorology) | April 23, 2010 |
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