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Talk:1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado

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Tornado Chart[edit]

What is up with the chart? It makes no sense in the context of this article. 137.48.134.32 20:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

this was one of the tornados that wont be forgoten

i believe the chart is for the outbreak, else i have no idea why it is there. the tornado outbreak of which this was but 1 tornado, had 14 confrimed and at those listed levels..Childhoodtrauma 00:24, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The chart is extremely useful, and is WP:SEVERE standard. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 19:42, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the chart is for the outbreak; apparently the outbreak of the 27th. The article needs expanding on the outbreak as well as the STL tornado itself. Evolauxia (talk) 00:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The 1927 tornado was not the second costliest tornado on record, Lubbock was the second costliest. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 19:41, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Normalizing, or standardizing, tornado events for changes in inflation and wealth, it is the second costliest, as seen here which is from Brooks and Doswell, 2001 (which is sourced in the article for the claim of most damaging, which in unadjusted numbers would go to OKC 1999 and Lubbock somewhat down the list). Evolauxia (talk) 00:28, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking that this article should be renamed to something like May 1896 tornado outbreak sequence. This St. Louis event was was just one of (although the worst) several outbreaks over a two week period. I don't know that it makes sense to have one article for each outbreak, considering the current standards, or having one article for the other four outbreaks, and leaving this one by itself. In addition, this article already mentions the other tornadoes of May, 1896.

Here are the details of the outbreaks according to the main outbreak page. Thoughts?

5/15: 85 deaths 5/17: 25 deaths 5/24-25: 79 deaths This one: 305 deaths

Gopher backer (talk) 01:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To comply with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events), I changed the article name: tornado should be in lower case. This doesn't address any of the other issues you may have mentioned above. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:33, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Added year per Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Tornado's naming convention. Fixing double redirects. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:42, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have two photo heavy books on this tornado system that were in print at the time, one of which is listed as a reference/further reading. one of the two (and i don't remember if it was the already referenced one or not) has some information about the aftermath in st. louis. from memory it includes people in the south sicde of the city (the poor/imigreant section at that time) feeling they were being ignored and the residents going as far as to burn the mayor of the city in effigy. would we want to consider adding sourced material about some of the long term after effects? currently there is none at all other than death tolls. and if we start to enter it, I'm not sure if the one source i have would represent enough information (i do not believe, for example, it mentions the illinois side after issues at all)Childhoodtrauma (talk) 16:08, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely! Some information is better than nothing. Gopher backer (talk) 16:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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