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Sometimes I edit, and I try not to break the rules (if I do, feel free to tell me on my talk page). I'm a bit of a bold editor when I feel like it. I have 6000 edits, as of 19:22, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

My best work is Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse, my first and only featured article. I hope to be able to quickly create meteorological synopses and infoboxes for ongoing tornado outbreaks when they do happen - if 2025 has a super outbreak, you'll likely see me within the first 50 edits cleaning up whatever needs cleaning up.

I'm not subject to any sanctions at the moment. I don't necessarily have much ambition to become an administrator someday, but I might for the purposes of better contributing to DYK and dealing with sockpuppetry if nothing else. That's a matter for the distant future, however.

My current signature: Departure– (talk) 04:35, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Important links:

  • [https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/ Tropical Tidbits]
  • [https://www.weather.gov/ weather.gov]
  • [https://www.spc.noaa.gov/ Storm Prediction Center]
  • [https://www.spc.noaa.gov/archive/ SPC Archive]
  • [https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/mesoanalysis/ SPC Mesoanalysis]
  • [https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ NCEI Event Database]
  • [https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/list.phtml IEM NWS product finder]
  • [https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/#page=ovw Weather Prediction Center]
  • [https://atlas.niu.edu/forecast/scp/gefs_scp_stda_chiclet.png 2 week GEFS supercell ensemble forecast anomaly]

Pages I've started:

{{main|User:Departure–/Created pages}}

Drafts I've started (feel free to contribute!):

Miscellaneous pages I've created:

Pages I've significantly contributed to:

Interesting topics, potentially worthy of an article:

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= Featured topics =

What the topic state is now:

{{Featured topic box |title=Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023 |count=4 |image=Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023.png |imagesize=

|lead= {{icon|C}} Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023

|view=yes

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:::{{icon|C}} 2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado

::: {{icon|GA}} 2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado

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:::{{icon|FA}} Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse

:::{{icon|draft}} 2023 Covington tornado

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:::{{icon|list|}} List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023

:::{{icon|C}} 2023 Little Rock tornado }}

What I want to see looking at the topic, hopefully by 31 March next year:

{{Featured topic box |title=Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023 |count=5 |image=Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023.png |imagesize=

|lead={{icon|FA}} Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023

|view=yes

|column1=

:::{{icon|FA}} List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023

:::{{icon|GA}} 2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado

|column2=

:::{{icon|FA}} 2023 Little Rock tornado

:::{{icon|GA}} 2023 Covington tornado

|column3=

::: {{icon|FA}} Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse

:::{{icon|GA}} 2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado

}}

Tornadoes in Chicago

{{Featured topic box |title=Tornadoes in Chicago |count=6 |image= |lead={{icon|draft}} Tornadoes in Chicago

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:::{{icon|draft}} 1967 Oak Lawn tornado

:::{{icon|C}} Severe weather sequence of July 13–16, 2024

:::{{icon|Start}} 2021 Naperville–Woodridge tornado

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:::{{icon|draft}} 1876 Chicago tornado

:::{{icon|start}} 1990 Plainfield tornado

:::{{icon|Start}} 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak

}}

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Prospective DYK hooks for some of my drafts and WIP articles:

  • ...that the only fatality of the 2021 Fultondale tornado died in a basement and was a student at Fultondale High School, which also took a direct hit?
  • ...that the 1979 Cheyenne tornado, despite being a violent tornado, was described as having the appearance of a dust devil, with a funnel that didn't touch the ground?
  • ...that numerous tornadoes in a 1976 tornado outbreak followed unusual curving paths, including an F4 that struck the site of a nuclear reactor?
  • ...that despite the 1976 Jordan tornado killing thousands of livestock, having an intense satellite tornado, and producing the worst damage Fujita had seen up to then, no human fatalities occurred?
  • ... that Tallahassee, Temple, Topeka, Toledo, Tulsa, Tupelo, Tuscaloosa, and Tyler all took a toll from two or more twisters over F2? (April 1 hook.)
  • ... that in May 2024, two twisters tracked through Tallahassee on the tenth, toppling trees and taking two Tallahassean lives? (Another April 1 hook.)
  • ... that the widest tornado in Texas was also the deadliest tornado in Oklahoma, but not vice versa?
  • ... that the Windy City was hit with six whirlwinds and two windstorms over just 48 hours?
  • ... that the 1967 Belvidere tornado was described as taking "the worst possible path through Belvidere"?
  • ... that one of the strongest tornadoes on record helped volunteers and planted corn in a green field? (The best April 1 hook I can come up with.)

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{{cot|QPQs completed}}

= Did you know hooks and QPQs =

First line is a hook I've made, second line is my QPQ. 16px means the article is promoted or has run on the main page, 16px means it's awaiting promotion or approval. I haven't had any rejected DYK hooks yet.

Bargain Hunters, Swen Swenson (politician), John Spytek, Delivery After Raid, Ankarette Twynho, Fitton Cave, 2011 Ringgold–Apison tornado, 2023 Selma tornado, California FAIR Plan, Hundreds of Beavers, Jimena Sanchez (queen)

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