User:Typhoon2013/TC Sandbox 3

Tropical Cyclone Laws

Article 1 – Monitoring agencies

• Section 1: Keep it simple, when using abbreviations for agencies. This makes is consistent and makes it flow better when using this in storm summaries. — JR, Hurricanehink, YE, US Man, Inks.LWC, Julian Colton (July 5, 2013)
• Section 2: Regarding to what is the official agency of the Northwest Pacific, it is still the JMA. Even though the JTWC named the systems prior to 2000, the JMA had official tracks going back to 1951. So the official agency to follow in the Northwest Pacific, in general, is the JMA. — Undescribed, Supportstorm (May 26, 2017)
• Section 3: For Northwest Pacific storms, keep the current infobox of a current system as long as the JMA keeps reporting winds. — Typhoon2013, JR, YE, Meow (May 20, 2015)

Article 2 – Duration

We calculate the duration of a tropical cyclone from its formation date through to its dissipation date.

• Section 5: "The standard is to go with the RSMC." If another agency, most likely the JTWC, started tracking before the RSMC, we still follow the date where the RSMC started tracking on the system. — Meow, Hurricanehink, JR (June 6, 2013)
• Section 6: In the Infobox Hurricane template, we use the "Extratropical" parameter when a system transitions into an extratropical cyclone. If this is the case, we use the dissipation date as when the system's circulation officially dissipated. This is useful, especially as some storms have significant extratropical histories. — Hurricanehink, US Man, Little Mountain 5 (November 4, 2013)
• Section 7: For Crossover systems, "systems that formed in one year, but were named in the next will receive mention in an other storms section on the previous year's article as well as normal mention on the current year." Seven points are made in this topic by a user regarding this, and this all depends on user confirmation or on the RSMC (or BT). – Hurricane Noah, Hurricanehink (January 2, 2019)
• Section 8: The Atlantic and the EPac basins officially end on December 1 of 00Z. Users can finally confirm the end of the season on or after that date. Any edit confirming the end of the season before December 1 is to be considered as WP:OR. – JR, Knowledgekid87, MoneyHurricane (November 30, 2016)

Season durations

• Section 9.1: Create the next Atlantic hurricane season article when the first forecast has been published. WP:Crystal does NOT apply in this case. – Various (December 21, 2019)
• Section 9.2: In order for an article not to fall under WP:CRYSTAL, users have decided that the next PTS and Nio season articles should be created at least a month before the actual new year. This is a good way for transitioning one season to another as both basins do not have seasonal boundaries. – Consensus (December 23, 2016)

Article 3 – Designations

• Section 10: If a system does not reach tropical storm intensity, especially named, then we keep the designation (eg: 01W, 04B, 03E etc). If the RSMC does not have designations, where the only case is the JMA, and the JTWC designates it, use the JTWC designation. — Typhoon2013, ChocolateTrain (July 21, 2017)
• Section 11: The standard is that when creating a storm page, the title should include the 'Name' and the '(Year)', especially when the name is reused. Should a storm's name become retired and caused significant effects, then no need to include the '(Year)' in the title. — Hurricane Devon, jdorje, Nilfanion, DavidH, Titoxd, Crazyc83 (April 10, 2006)

Article 4 – Format

• Section 15: Despite many changes since the discussion through to the 2024 version, the article formatting is as follows, the Infobox, Prose (includes 2 paragraphs minimum), Storm history, Preparations and Impact. See link for more info. — Hurricanehink, Titoxd, Nilfanion, CrazyC83 (May 15, 2006)
• Section 16: As per MOS:DATETIES. Depending on what basin you are working with, either use MDY or DMY format. Just be consistent. — Typhoon2013, Iune, JR, YE, Titoxd, Cyclonebiskit (February 25, 2016)
• Section 17: Per MOS:SMALLFONT, Avoid using smaller font sizes within elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes, and reference sections. — Hurricanehink (May 9, 2020)
• Section 18: As per 2015 version, when a tropical cyclone is currently active we use "Present" instead of "Currently active". This is because the date ranges has pretty widely been adopted throughout Wikipedia outside of a few weather-related pages. — Dustin, JR, Typhoon2013 (October 15, 2015)
• Section 19: In season articles, the section name for the list of cyclones in that article should be called "Systems", rather than "Storms". Using "Systems" is a more neutral term, especially as some basins have tropical disturbances and zones of disturbed weather. — JR, Hurricanehink, YE (December 1, 2016)
• Section 19: When using units, it should be abbreviated. The MoS does not state that it is necessary to spell out units, just that it's "usually better" to. — YE, TropicalAnalystwx13, US Man, Inks.LWC, Titoxd (January 4, 2014)
• Section 20: Don't be too precise in damage amounts since it's just an estimate. Usually 3–4 significant digits should be used. — Jdorje, Hurricanehink (February 9, 2006)
• Section 21: Because the Northwest Pacific basin storms can receive two names, one by JMA and the other by PAGASA, the standard format for starting up a typhoon article is as goes, "Typhoon (Name), known in the Philippines as "Typhoon (Name)"..." A number is not a name and should not be used in the start-up of the article and using it is quite pointless. — TheAustinMan, Cyclonebiskit, Hurricanehink (November 21, 2013)

Article 5 – Images

• Section 28: NRL's Geostationary images are good to be used for current tropical cyclones as some of those give a clearer view of the storm's structure. This is also to avoid NASA Worldview's lines that ruin images. It is also a much easier way for users to upload and update the images. — Typhoon2013, Auree, Dustin (September 29, 2015)
• Section 29: Regarding which TC image to use in the infoboxes, the time taken of the image must be during its peak strength by the RSMC, or "to any point where a storm has winds within 5 percent of peak intensity (in knots)" or "within six hours somewhere in the image". — Supported by WPTC (July 18, 2018)

Article 6 – Classification

• Section 35: The "NOAA uses ACE from all tropical and subtropical storms". — JR, YE, TropicalAnalystwx13 (November 14, 2012)
• Section 36: We use 1-minute sustained winds when calculating the ACE Index of a storm. – Typhoon2013, JD, YE (July 26, 2017)
• Section 37: Converting ACE indices to 3 and 10-minute winds is considered as WP:OR. The JTWC does not calculate ACE indices, rather than the NHC and IMD (3-min) which does, and ACE only applies to only 1-minute winds. Hence why, we only mention the season totals of ACE in the Atlantic and PHS articles. – Typhoon2013, LightandDark2000, JR, JD, YE (December 5, 2017)