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Re: Joplin tornado

I think it may be worth noting that the EF5 rating was put into question; however, since NWS Springfield followed up and stated that the tornado was still considered EF5, I don't think it warrants being "colored" as a possibly not being of such intensity. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 03:11, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak FAC

I'll just be upfront about this, this article is not ready for FAC and truly shouldn't be a GA either, in my opinion. I suggest that you withdraw the article from FAC and take a good look at it. There are numerous issues across the board with this article and it would take an unreasonable amount of effort to fix them up within the time it would be at FAC. I personally have major issues with the haphazard focus of the article, namely the meteorological synopsis. For April 27, I see no mention of the three waves of activity that occurred that day, most notably a complete lack of mention of the MCS in the early morning. Information within this section as a whole is mostly leftover from reports going on at the time and do not represent the final analyses on the event. As for the notable tornado section, many of these need to be reworked. The Hackleburg tornado's section is grossly overweight, being the exact same size as its sub-article and gives it undue weight. Despite this weight, it's a big hunk of fluff. It's just an excess account of its track and accounts of the damage surveyed.

I could honestly keep going since I have a major bone to pick with this article but it's not worth my time to tear it apart. I'm sorry, but it's just not close to FAC status. If you really want to go further with this article, send it to peer review to be cleaned up first. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 20:42, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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Yarnell Hill Fire

Hello! I see that you deleted the partial quotes which had been added to the "reaction" section of this article. Actually there was a consensus developing at the talk page that a single-sentence quote or paraphrase from Obama and Brewer would be acceptable. Please weigh in there; I for one would like to restore the short quotes you deleted, and was in the process of tidying them up when I got an edit-conflict which was your deletion. Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 03:48, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Re: Can you please explain this?

About the edit on the 2013 Pacific hurricane season page...I was putting in that Dalila had become a hurricane. I did not realize I had copied extra sentences from above. I apologize that occured. Hurricane Andrew (444) 20:38, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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Please stop sending me messages

Um, no i'm not currently a violator of those rules. Maybe in the past I have, but not none of those apply this edit in any way shape or form. I'm simply trying to keep the info accurate, and I haven't violated ANY of those rules so that is a pointless message that you just sent me.

Though regarding the 1942 tornado, I will compromise and leave the title alone, but mention Lacon in the description. I have to ask, do you actually know anything about this particular tornado? The reason I ask, is that it is a well documented fact that this tornado struck the town of Lacon, sweeping away several homes and destroying much of the town. Why list only the counties? The 1977 Bham tornado isn't listed as "Jefferson County, AL" , and the 2011 El Reno-Piedmont tornado isn't listed as "Canadian-Kingfisher County, OK". Explain to me why I can only list the counties in this case, and not the town that was impacted? Sharkguy05 (talk) 05:20, 11 July 2013 (UTC)Sharkguy05 Sharkguy05 (talk) 05:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)Sharkguy05

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Your edit is clearly not from a "neutral point of view" (NPOV) in accordance with Wikipedia's written policy, but is completely biased in favor of one individual and their action in the controversy, which is not constructive at all. If you can reword my edit to be more constructive and neutral, then fine.

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The Big One (NASCAR)

I have reverted your recent edits to this article, which is still in need of attention. The subject of the article is the term The Big One" and therefore should contain;

• how the term came to be coined
• a definition of the term and the criteria that a crash must meet to be termed as "The Big One"
• what causes a "Big One" if there is a source to support that
• controversy regarding use of the term in marketing
• notable examples of crashes which meet the criteria for "The Big One"

To be notable the crashes need to be sourced. Adding a long list of crashes with no clear definition of what constitutes "The Big One" and without any sources is original research, and POV. I am happy to help improve this article if you can identify sources that support notability. Flat Out let's discuss it 02:22, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to The Big One (NASCAR). Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Flat Out let's discuss it 03:03, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

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Tropical Storm Flossie (2013)

Just next time when you create article, just make sure there is some basic structure before pressing "Save page". Regards. YE ^{Pacific Hurricane} 20:46, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

By this he means sufficient content and information from sources outside of RSMCs (news sources). Currently, the only additional information for Flossie are the flash flood watches and generic disaster preparation notices. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 20:50, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello

I saw that you removed my edit, Thank you, even though I was trying to help expand the article as it requests, I will try to find a more reliable source for it --Grayssake (talk) 20:14, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Infobox links

Forgive me, but if it's the links you're referring to I really don't see the point of using links like [[Inch of mercury|inHg]] when [[inHg]] is a redirect which takes you to the same place. And [[Southwest|SW]] takes you to something which is really a disambiguation page - if you don't like my [[Boxing the compass|SW]] it should surely be [[Cardinal direction#Additional points|SW]] (these probably ought to be merged, but that is another issue).

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PS looking at WP:OVERLINK again I wonder whether any of the wind speed and pressure units, or the directions, really merit linking at all. The links are hardly likely to add to the reader's understanding.--Keith Edkins ( Talk ) 12:00, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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2012 Christmas tornado outbreak

Hi, I am a Good Article Recruiteer and my recruitee have expressed an interest in me modelling it as a review. Would you be ok with this?--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 22:28, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

This just reminded me...USM, don't forget to update the table to meet the new standards. Probably best to use the format that was created in the 1999 Oklahoma outbreak list since that complies with MOS better than any other version. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 23:00, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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The only place that an official gust velocity is given is on the Forecast Advisory, currently as 80 knots; so that must be taken as the direct source for all other units. The relevant calculations are therefore (I use Excel for calculations, BTW):

mph 80 × 1.15078 = 92.0624, rounded to 90

km/h 80 × 1.852 = 148.16, rounded to 150

The fact that the derived mph figure does not then round to the km/h figure is the principal delight of rounded arithmetic.

What kind of number has four digits but no comma? Well, the distances in the NHC's Public Advisories do. Millibar figures do. Distances in Infoboxes have done in the past, as far back as I can find (e.g.[1]). It stops the infoboxes being any wider than they have to be. The Manual of Style says "Numbers with four digits to the left of the decimal point may or may not be delimited (e.g. 1250 or 1,250)."

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In the spirit of compromise, do you at least accept my logic on the wind gust speeds?--Keith Edkins ( Talk ) 09:18, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

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I replaced "Track of first tropical phase" with "Track map" because if you look at the map you notice the other tropical phase. ManhattanSandyFurystorm (talk) 16:49, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

What do you mean it's not there???????????? Next to Florida!!!!!! ManhattanSandyFurystorm (talk) 19:50, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Great. ManhattanSandyFurystorm (talk) 20:05, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

And also, about the chart in the August 2013 tornado article- why did we change the chart? ManhattanSandyFurystorm (talk) 16:54, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

MoS?? ManhattanSandyFurystorm (talk) 16:57, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

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We are trying to keep a neutral viewpoint here, and we are not going to just focus on one viewpoint about the damage if there are multiple viewpoints among experts. I don't know why you think a news article from the Weather Channel would hold precedence over the official NWS survey. Just because you don't agree with it personally doesn't mean you get to remove it. Sharkguy05 (talk) 05:06, 1 September 2013 (UTC)Sharkguy05

It is in no way, shape, or form a text-based opinion, because it is a sourced fact. The official NWS Springfield survey map has a solid swath of EF5 damage from St.Johns to the industrial park. That's EF5 damage through more than 3/4 of the city. I'm not backing down on this because I know i'm in the right here. There is NO way we are going to only mention the viewpoint expressed in the weather channel article, which is much less reliable/official than the actual NWS survey. That is not how this website works. You are making your bias way to obvious. Sharkguy05 (talk) 05:56, 1 September 2013 (UTC)Sharkguy05

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Please dont remove systems and call them gone until they have. While Yutu has weakened into a tropical depression, the JMA still warning on it via their marine warnings available on their website. Oh and im not sure how much more it will be able to be expanded until next year, since the JTWC did not monitor it on their STWA until late Sunday.Jason Rees (talk) 21:16, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

In future Id suggest that you check the latest marine forecast from the JMA and the history of the page, before you decide to accuse me of jumping all over you and telling me that its all my fault that the season effects box had a dissipation date. Also can you please stop adding useless tags to the page since there is an incomplete tag up the top and help to expand the season - its way too much for just a few editors to do.Jason Rees (talk) 21:39, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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If you look at the article now it is pretty much the same info I had put in that you labeled as "part of this is untrue and it is entirely unnecessary". It does not bother me as what I said was the truth, what bothers me is that you would jump to the conclusions that the reliable source I used and what I read on the NHC's website were false about it regenerating into a P-T cyclone. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 18:15, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 September newsletter

In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Sasata (submissions), Hawkeye7 (submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and Casliber (submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

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Tropical Storm Karen

I put work into the Tropical Storm Karen (2013) as you know. I will leave it for you or someone else to repost. Kennvido (talk) 03:35, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Stop

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I would recommend this goto WP:ANI there is a dispute here. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 04:46, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Weather

I see you like weather, me three... You should have been with me when I was a stringer for the stations in Central and North Florida.... you'd had loved it!!!! I drove just after midnight south to New Smyrna Beach, Florida, just south of Daytona, looking for weather as a front was coming though. MY CAR DID A 180 ON U.S. 1...the wind just came out of nowhere... I looked at my buddy who was with me, we stared at each other... and said you okay? We both said yes and UTurned and headed south again...the scanner was going crazy...we were like five miles from NSB as it was getting hit... http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/?n=110297 I was the first on scene and what video and ruin and helped many people with my search light..... no one died thank God. It was great as far a WX goes... be good my fair WX friend.Kennvido (talk) 06:21, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

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Sock Puppetry False Claim

Hi there. It has seemed that you have accused my of sock puppetry, due to my loss of my other account. I'd like to say because I did loose my other account, which was paideguinha. I've sent a password request, but since I had a different email, which I forgot now the current password to. paideguinha is my current name for my Youtube and twitter. Apparently, you've accused me of being a person I haven't heard of, which is Earth100. I don't know who he is, but you've said I have used same grammar as Earth100. I've just made "ItsPaide" right now. I'm just about to check Earth100 right currently.

EDIT: So he also is in interest of tropical cyclones too. If I were Earth100, I would've said that Earth100 was my old account, not paideguinha. I used paideguinha for creating articles about stars. Anyway, Earth100 lives in Hong Kong, China apparently. I live in the US in Florida. The only article I've created is in my user page. I would've included all the articles that I've made if I were Earth100. I don't even know how to add photos because my account hasn't been confirmed. Please understand that I am NOT Earth100. I would've said that my old account was Earth100. Thanks. ItsPaide (talk) 21:52, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Bising

Assuming that Bisings section can be expanded out to a level where we are comfortable with keeping it in the main storms section, do we really need to be adding brackets to note that PAGASA named it when we dont do it for CPHC or IMD namings that affect systems in the WPAC. (Abliet in the case of the IMD - there are only 2 cases to worry about Jal and Philyan)Jason Rees (talk) 17:20, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Your argument is that too all of us the brackets () show that the Philippines names it while non brackets show that the JMA named it which i can respect, but imo it falls down when you ask does an outsider really know that? Also consider the cases of Jal and Philyan which were named by the IMD does an outsider know that they werent named by the JMA or PAGASA. As for the Other Storms your comments have been noted and tbh im thinking along the same lines and have found a few references that will ease the problem slightly.Jason Rees (talk) 17:56, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

This is a problem faced by the non NHC side of the project as a whole when there is no name or designation in the origin basin but is named later on. I personally prefer calling such systems by their proper name rather than just Tropical Depression or Tropical Low since we can only do that once per season without having problems with the section title.Jason Rees (talk) 18:57, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Generally speaking i have no problems adding a few details on where it was named to the summary - i think when i did the PTS section for Phailin included a line about it moving into the NIO and it gradually developing into VSCS Phailin.Jason Rees (talk) 19:27, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

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Re: 1998 tornado

I think it does suggest possible F5/EF5 intensity, and that this tornado lands in the fuzzy area where there is a good chance that experts might disagree on a rating. TornadoLGS (talk) 01:45, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

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2013 PTS Timeline

Can you check the October section and make sure im on the right tracks with it. Personally I'm not sure about the inclusion of the different SSHWS categories - i think id rather just put TY STY and peak intensity down for JTWC. Regards.Jason Rees (talk) 05:01, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Ok thanks for the views - im aiming to get it as complete as i can before possibly using it to condense the PTS down.Jason Rees (talk) 05:19, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

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All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

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• Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
• Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
• The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
• Finally, the judges are awarding Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

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JMA

Please note that the JMA is still monitoring Krosa, as a tropical depression via its warnings headed WWJP25.Jason Rees (talk) 01:04, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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Re: Bolding

We went through this before, and I really don't want to again. The bolding is not necessary and WP:IAR doesn't necessarily apply. I've already obtained the final format on the tables through FLC which we should be following. Please refer to List of tornadoes in the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak for how to appropriately format the tables. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 00:44, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

After the two months of working on the freaking table, no, I don't support bolding anymore. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 00:59, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

And, to add further, what we want is really irrelevant. The MOS says no bolding, therefore there is no bolding. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 01:32, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

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Opinion wanted

I'm trying to decide on a damage picture to use for the November 17 outbreak. I'm stuck between these two http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/ilx/events/17nov13/DSC07801.JPG http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/ilx/events/17nov13/DSC07807.JPG from Washington, Illinois. Which do you prefer? TornadoLGS (talk) 19:56, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

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Missing EF4

There seems to be a missing EF4 tornado somewhere. You recently changed the count of EF4 tornadoes in 2013 from 8 to 9, but I can still only find 8 on the monthly lists. The discrepancy is on the May list. TornadoLGS (talk) 01:07, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

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Nomination of List of United States tornadoes from November to December 2013 for deletion

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Reason for reversion on the Nov 17 outbreak page

The Gifford, New Minden, Kokomo, Pekin and other entries lost sources and detail without reasoning. I'm not sure why you would replace a NWS damage survey page with an SPC reports map. I'm not sure if its accidental or on purpose, but I don't have the time to go back and and add all these refs and details back. Please read the sources if you are skeptical, but do not delete sourced, relevant info. Thank you. Sharkguy05 (talk) 03:01, 26 November 2013 (UTC)Sharkguy05

Japan Member Report

Two things USM, 1) It might be worth you double checking the stuff i added to the September 2 section, on the 2013 Tornadoes based on Japans member report to WMO. 2) The member report also highlights that Man-yi also caused several F0 and F1 tornadoes which caused 10 injuries/1000 homes damaged so im not sure its worth a section. Let me know what you think - Thanks :).Jason Rees (talk) 04:12, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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Careful, this edit was sourced (in bold) - but just not in the way we like it. However im not going to be RVing you, since it looks like it breaches WP:Not by using us a platform to promote the book.Jason Rees (talk) 20:30, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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WP:PROF

As reviewing administrator, I removed you speedy deletion tag on Wit Busza. The accomplishments listed, being a Fellow of the American Physical society, and a Full professor at MIT, are quite sufficient to give some plausible indication of importance. (note that Fellow of this society like most such societies is an elected honor, as distinct from the routine rank of Member) In fact, I think that anyone claiming a professorship at any level at a university is at least a claim to plausible importance, whether or not they are actually notable.

In fact, he's actually notable under WP:PROF because of the Fellowship--and other factors, when the article gets developed further. In repeated decisions at AfD , almost all full professors at major universities have been found to be notable, tho that is not the actual standard. Note that WP:PROF is explicitly an alternative to the GNG-- a professor could be notable under either criterion.

If it's WP:PROF, there's not even a need for 3rd party sources, just reliable sources to prove the factors of notability ; An official CV is accepted as a reliable source for routine uncontroversial maters. Indeed, for BLPPROD, there's also no need for third party sources, just reliable ones that address the notability. BLPRPDO is concerned with verifiability, not notability, & its purpose is to prevent fraudulent claims.

I'm explaining this in some detail because you're doing god work here, and this is rather a specialized situation. DGG ( talk ) 10:00, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

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You have reverted user Theroux721's edits on Jim McMahon claiming "no sources have been used".

Sources have been indeed used, and are also unnecessary in a one sentence addition. Theroux721 (talk • contribs) 03:00, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

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Hi USM, I hope you liked my finding of the tornado stats for Man-yi, there may be a few more bits to come for it. Anyway per my interpretation of WP:Overlink, Japan should not be linked yet alone twice since it is a major geographic features just like the United States is but Vanuatu isnt.Jason Rees (talk) 21:16, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Unwarrented removal of sourced information

Once again, I have had to revert your "updates" to the November 17, 2013 tornado outbreak article. You either knowingly removed sourced information, simply did not read the sources carefully enough, or accidentally removed information without knowing. I will continue to do this as long as you keep indiscriminately removing relevant, sourced information. Feel free to add information or sources, but make sure you aren't removing info that other info users have added and sourced. That is inconsiderate. The summaries on that article are well-sourced are fine as is. Sharkguy05 (talk) 19:39, 22 December 2013 (UTC)Sharkguy05

I kept your sourcing changes and updated tornado count, but I put most of the detailed info back. You are going to have to learn that you don't own the severe articles on this website. People are going to add information and change wording whether you like it or not. As long as it is sourced, you don't have the grounds to do anything about that. I am willing to make compromises with you, but you are going to have to acknowledge when you don't have control over certain details that are being added. What details I add is my decision, not yours (as long as they are sourced/relevant, that is). That is simply how this website works. Sharkguy05 (talk) 01:49, 26 December 2013 (UTC)Sharkguy05

Please, just read the sources, I beg of you. Every detail that I write in those summaries are verifiable by looking at the sources. Look in the edit summaries for my most recent set of edits. I provided where to look in the source to find the information that verifies the what I added! Look and you will find it! Sharkguy05 (talk) 06:00, 26 December 2013 (UTC)Sharkguy05

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Canada Tornado

The reason i took it out was because there isnt any proof that it was associated with Hurricane Sandy. The source doesnt provide any proof that it was associated with Sandy, while the NHC used the line "only one tornado was reported in association with Sandy" in their TCR. If you would like to add it to a new section feel free, but im not sure i see it as noteworthy. Merry Christmas.Jason Rees (talk) 17:56, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

How are you proving that it was "more closely associated with a frontal boundary than with the nearby remnants of Hurricane Sandy." The source cited doesnt give any details on how it was formed.Jason Rees (talk) 18:32, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

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