Talk:1999 Salt Lake City tornado

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Citations for damage estimates, fatalities, injuries, etc. are needed. I tried to find some, but it seems there are conflicting sources, or at least some sources are using older information than others.

We need to think of names for sections in this article, so the table of contents won't appear at the very bottom, and so we can have an appropriate lead section. Any ideas on how to split this up? --Lethargy 20:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We may want to create a Tornadoes in Utah or Tornadoes in Salt Lake City, Utah article to merge this into. I figure we encounter few enough of them that we should combine them all in one article, and work to get that article featured. --Lethargy 20:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As a follow-up, I noticed that the Deseret News produced a book about this tornado which would be extremely useful as a reference. It is Salt Lake City's Tornado of '99 ISBN 0-913062-08-1 which can be bought here: http://deseretnews.com/tornado/ or checked out from the Salt Lake County Library System here (search for "Salt Lake City's" without the quotes in "Title starts with:") --Lethargy 21:01, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think I could dig up some sources for the tornado. However, i can't add any information off the top of my head. I'll also analyze the article and what needs adding and how I could split it up. The table of contents also bugs the hell out of me near the bottom there. I think a Tornadoes in Utah article would be a great idea, but I would not want to merge this article into that. This deserves a seperate article. By the way, here's a great source that lists all of the tornadoes ever recorded in Utah, including an in-depth report on this tornado. EDIT: There's also far too many pictures in this article, and even with the bar at the bottom it's far too cluttered. Two pictures of the damage is enough of an article this size. bob rulz 22:17, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added sections and moved the gallery to the bottom of the page, just above the external links. Do you know where we can dig up sources for the "Before the storm" section (which might need renaming)? It states specific times and mentions hail in Herriman and tracks the storms movement, but where did the info come from? Also, the infobox states there were $170 million USD in damages, but what is the source? --Lethargy 18:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tornado coverage

As a follow up to requesting sources above, I'd like to collect as many pages covering the tornado as possible, so we can cite a variety of sources and find the most accurate information.

Here is what I have collected so far:

These are from the External links section:

Supposedly the Salt Lake Tribune did a series on the tornado (linked to from the second link above), but the link no longer works and I can't find it in their archives because it tells me JavaScript is not enabled (it is) and that I need to log in to browse the archives.

There should be several in the Deseret News, if anyone has a link on hand or wants to dig a few articles up. --Lethargy 19:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name

I moved "Salt Lake City Tornado" to "Salt Lake City tornado" to comply with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events). --Rosiestep (talk) 23:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added the year to the title per Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Tornado's naming convention. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:47, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

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http://site.utah.gov/dps/homelandsecurity/MitigationPla_MMtmp24d95a3b/disasterhistory.pdf
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--JeffGBot (talk) 12:25, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sixth strong tornado in Utah since 1950

The 1999 Salt Lake City tornado was the sixth strong tornado to hit Utah since official tornado records began in 1950 and was one of seven. The first strong tornado in Utah occurred on June 3, 1963 in Bountiful and the most recent was in Manti on September 8, 2002. The strongest tornado to hit Utah was an F3 on August 11, 1993 in the Uinta Mountains.--Kevjgav (talk) 01:12, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

according http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/Utah/F2/map there was an F2 on June 16, 1955 in Fayette, another F2 in Magna on February 9, 1965 and an F2 in Moab on June 10, 1970.--Kevjgav (talk) 04:30, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redundancy

Under "Damage," there is a phrase which reads, in part, "...over 120 homes were severely damaged...and 34 homes were severely damaged." I'm not familiar with this topic, so I left this redundancy alone, but better information is needed here.24.244.23.207 (talk) 06:54, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]