Talk:List of United States tornadoes in April 2019

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Is it premature to say this is the April to May list?

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

In previous years whether the April and May lists were merged or given separate pages depended on how much tornadic activity occurred in April. Will we still split if April decides to ramp up? TornadoLGS (talk) 00:10, 10 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

Standardized Article Divisions by Month

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

In order to keep these tornado articles in the same format each year, it may be wise to separate months as follows: Jan-Mar, April, May, June, July-Sep, Oct-Dec. This reflects tornado occurrence in the US and will standardize our US tornado lists. Alternatively, months could be sorted Jan-March, April-May, June-Aug, Sep-Dec, with the specification that a month is separated from its group if there are more than 200 tornadoes in that month. Does anyone else have thoughts on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tornadotom666 (talk • contribs) 15:15, 17 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

That doesn't always work. Every year is different depending on activity. I don't really see a need to change what we're doing. United States Man (talk) 16:04, 17 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

I agree with USM on this matter, but I do wonder why we skipped ahead and just added May to this list from the beginning. Are we presuming that April will have low activity? We're well on the way to breaking 100 tornadoes for the month. Given the outlook we could reach that number by the end of the week.

Though one thing I do think would be a good idea would be to have some standard number of tornadoes for determine when a month should be split. From looking at previous years, that number seems to be in the range of 100-150 tornadoes. TornadoLGS (talk) 17:40, 17 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I found that the months were split when one month reached about 200 tornadoes. Setting a number like this would resolve difficulties that may arise when some people think the articles should be split and others don't think there is a reason to do so yet. Tornadotom666 (talk) 20:04, 17 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

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