Talk:Meteorological history of Tropical Storm Allison

Meteorological history of Tropical Storm Allison is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 17, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
September 5, 2008	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 3, 2009	Featured article review	Demoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 24, 2008. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that during the unusually long 15-day track of Tropical Storm Allison, the storm attained tropical or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?
Current status: Former featured article

Meteorological history[edit]

I don't think a meteorological history should include impacts from the storm. That is the domain of the storm's main article as it is not a meteorological characteristic.

"The high amounts of precipitation led to horrendous flooding in and around Houston, Texas,[9] with flash flooding continuing for days.[10] The storm killed 41 people, of which 27 drowned. The storm also caused over $5 billion in damage (2001 USD, $6.4 billion 2007 USD),[11] making Allison the deadliest and costliest tropical storm on record in the United States.[1]"

Otherwise my first run-through found no big problems. I plan on nit-picking my way through tomorrow. Good work Julian. Plasticup ^T/C 04:15, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Met. histories should and have been limited to what the storm did, what it was forecast to do, and what it didn't do, all meteorologically speaking. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 11:59, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, done. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 12:13, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Wall of water"[edit]

With a storm surge of 2–3 feet (1 meter) combined with waves on top, areas of Galveston Island experienced a wall of water 8 feet (2.5 m) in height - Obviously there wasn't literally a wall made out of water. It is a metaphor, which is fine, but it is also a coloquial idiom, which is out of step with an otherwise professional-sounding article. Plasticup ^T/C 18:54, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 20:49, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilinked dates[edit]

Personally I hate wikilinked dates, but it is a matter of preference. If you decide that you want to use them though, they should be used everywhere. While the majority are wikilinked, there are several instances of dates not are not. If you want to keep them, check through for unlinked dates. If you decide that you don't want to wikilink them, let me know. I wrote a little tool to strip them. Plasticup ^T/C 19:01, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to keep the article free of wikilinked dates, though because I spent most of my time here on Wikipedia using them, they sometimes slipped in. That would be great if you could use a script to de-link them, as doing it manually is extremely tedious. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 20:49, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. If you are interested, the regex Find and Replaces are as follows.

Find: \[\[200(\d)\]\] Replace: 200$1 Plasticup ^T/C 22:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's great, thanks. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 23:46, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

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Send to PR -> FAC. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 02:40, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 02:40, 17 August 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 23:46, 29 April 2016 (UTC)