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Talk:Meteorological history of Hurricane Harvey

Meteorological history of Hurricane Harvey has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: July 3, 2019. (Reviewed version).

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I don't have time at the moment to embark on a full GA review (hopefully soon, if no-one else claims it), but I do think more official citations should be sought for the rainfall records than the tweets currently used. After nearly two years, this data should be fully integrated into climate databases and/or final event summaries. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:55, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've replaced both tweets with sources from NOAA. I switched the daily record to the IAH station instead as I could only find a source explicitly stating a record was set for that station. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 09:31, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Meteorological history of Hurricane Harvey/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: 12george1 (talk · contribs) 02:45, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I will be reviewing this article tonight--12george1 (talk) 02:45, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• "Hurricane Harvey was the costliest tropical cyclone on record (tied with Hurricane Katrina of 2005), inflicting roughly $125 billion in damage across the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas." - Considering that you do not mention this later in the article, you should add a citation
  • Added press release from NHC ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• "Harvey originated from a broad area of low pressure southwest of Cape Verde that was first detected on August 13. " - I think the word you want here is "monitored" instead of "detected". Surely with today's satellite technology it didn't go unnoticed until August 13
  • Fixed ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• In the lead, you linked tropical cyclone and Greater Houston twice (Houston metropolitan area redirects to Greater Houston)
  • Fixed ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• "and final landfall just west of Cameron, Louisiana on August 30 before" - Comma after Louisiana
  • Added comma ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• "On August 12, a tropical wave moved off the west coast of Africa;" - Considering that TCR elaborates on this, make sure you add about how it was accompanied by a "large convective mass"
  • Added the part in, along with a tidbit about a passing Kelvin wave that was also in the TCR. Realized I forgot to wikilink convection too ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• You probably should also mention where Harvey formed at 06:00 UTC on August 17, as it is more than 200 miles east of where the NHC began advisories
  • Added distance from Barbados as mentioned in TCR. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• "An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft investigating the disturbance from 18:00—21:00 UTC that day detected" - Mention August 17 again because now it's been three sentences since a date was last mentioned and now you're in a new paragraph
  • Good point. Added. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• "towards the Caribbean Sea while the tropical wave moved further north" - Change furthertofarther because we're talking about distance
  • Fixed, that one gets me way too often. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• "The center of Harvey crossed the coast near Cameron, Louisiana at 08:00 UTC" - Same as earlier with the comma after Louisiana
  • Added comma ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Add a See also section with similar and relevant articles. For example, List of Texas hurricanes (1980–present), Timeline of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Allison etc.
  • Added the section ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Why are Miami and the National Hurricane Center wikilinked on Ref 2?
  • Eh, I just removed all the wikilinks in the references since I wasn't really doing them consistently anyway. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not a bad article. Just some mostly minor fixes needed to be fixed or addressed before I can pass--12george1 (talk) 02:45, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Should be all done. Thanks for the review, 12george1. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• I will now pass this article and list it as a GA. Nice work--12george1 (talk) 05:06, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]