Talk:Tornado outbreak of December 23–25, 2015

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Tornado outbreak sequence?[edit]

It maybe a few hours too soon, but are we witnessing a tornado outbreak sequence? It seems that way to me that we are, and a very significant one as well. We have a Preliminary Rating of "at least high-end EF3 intensity" for one tornado on December 23, and one with an intensity of a least EF4 on December 26. And as these are Preliminary Ratings, it appears there is a chance they both might be upgraded to "EF5"!!! Either one could be the first December tornado of F5 or EF5 intensity in many decades (at minimum we had first of F4 or EF4 intensity in the past 15 years). Please, discuss. Thank you.--Halls4521 (talk) 18:19, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Already established that the outbreaks are separate and will not be combined into an outbreak sequence on Talk:Tornadoes of 2015. Unlikely that any of these tornadoes will be rated EF5. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 18:23, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

is there an official source confirming that those outbreak are separate though since they came from the same weather system. 98.174.223.41 (talk) 18:46, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

They came from different weather systems. United States Man (talk) 18:58, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As stated above, there's no information to directly connect these several outbreaks with each other and the current weather system with the ongoing winter storm/Blizzard. Also, there seems to be a huge enough breaks between outbreaks to warrant against connecting them as a sequence (See above mentioned Talk Page).--Halls4521 (talk) 19:07, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Main Dec 23 tornado[edit]

Looks like looking at the NWS Memphis Twitter feeds, it looks to be more than one tornado involved along that long track. First one was 63 miles long (the one east of Clarksdale) and EF3, while at some point it broke and reform as an EF4 near Ashland (assuming it's the same that hit Holly Springs) . Also the Twitter feed during the event showed actually at least two supercells producing large tornadoes (another was near Oxford). 173.177.230.240 (talk) 17:00, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, we're just waiting on an issuance of a public information statement so we can appropriately update the article. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 17:03, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Damages column in tables[edit]

Are we still expecting to get some data filled in this column or should we remove it? --91.47.64.254 (talk) 14:24, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is standard procedure to include the damage column. Damage totals often do not come out until the data for the month is released through the NCDC which will be in 3 or 4 months. TornadoLGS (talk) 22:17, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]