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Proposal to add the Outbreak Intensity Score (OIS) into the tornado infoboxes?[edit]

With the Outbreak Intensity Score being created by Thomas P. Grazulis, the man himself, I think we should implement the OIS into the tornado infoboxes, especially Template:Infobox weather event/Tornado outbreak. It would provide extra information for the reader. According to the Wikipedia page of Thomas P. Grazulis, it says that for the Outbreak Intensity Score, only significant tornadoes, those rated F2 to F5 on the Fujita scale and those rated EF2 to EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale are used for the score of the outbreak. F2/EF2 tornadoes are given 2 points, F3/EF3 tornadoes are given 5 points, F4/EF4 tornadoes are given 10 points, and F5/EF5 tornadoes are given 15 points.

The wikitable provided below is the Outbreak Intensity Scale.

The Outbreak Intensity Score (OIS)
Type of outbreak	Weak	Minor	Significant	Major	Devastating	Historic	Super
Number of Points	2–6	7–10	11–29	30–79	80–119	120–249	250+

RandomWikiPerson_277^{talk page or something} 15:56, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RandomWikiPerson277: This talk page isn't very frequented by users. You may wish to propose this at WT:WEATHER instead, or at least provide a link back here for visibility. Chlod (say hi!) 03:36, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks for the information. RandomWikiPerson_277^{talk page or something} 15:03, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

“Major hurricane” tag in NWS hurricane subtemplate[edit]

Is there a proper way to add a way for the NWS hurricane sub template to differentiate between “hurricane” (C1 and C2) and “major hurricane” (C3+) like the old template? I feel like that’s missing from the current one and I’ve looked around for a way that I could safely add that but I am currently at a standstill. Any tips/if this is a good idea? MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 16:10, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @MarioProtIV! If it used to be in the old infobox, I think it should also be part of this one. Right now, storm categories are resolved in Module:Storm categories, so the changes would probably need to be made there, specifically for the atl keys of cat3 and above. If this is too advanced for you, I can request those changes to be made to the module. Chlod (say hi!) 03:34, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t have the permissions anyway to edit that module so yes I would like if a request can be put in there to modify that. MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 03:57, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MarioProtIV: Sorry for the delayed response! I kind of forgot about this... I've made the changes at Special:Diff/1219443799, but have held off on filing an edit request. Should I also add the differentiation for EPac and SAtl, or just Atl is fine? Chlod (say hi!) 20:01, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As EPac is also under NHC, yes. For SAtl, I would say hold off since there’s officially no jurisdiction there, but considering Catarina was a thing and is officially called a hurricane by everyone, I would lean yes to adding it there as well, in the highly unlikely event something worse then Catarina happens. Alternatively, just adding -equivalent on the end akin to the WPac can work as well. MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 20:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally any particular reason why you held off on an edit request? Just curious but I’d understand if you'd want some more opinions from other editors in the project for a consensus first before putting it in. --MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 20:14, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MarioProtIV: I wanted confirmation for the above before making the request, so that I wouldn't bother template editors with two requests. I've now filed the request here. As for the two month delay since my last reply: that's just me being forgetful. Sorry! 🙇 Chlod (say hi!) 02:03, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]