Talk:Hurricane Debby (1988)

Merge anyone?

This article lacks substance. If no new info can be found, I propose merging it with the main article. -- Hurricane Eric archive -- my dropsonde 01:53, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Supportive of the merge. I can't seem to find any other information on it myself. CrazyC83 04:40, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

(Shutters uncontrobably at the writing). Ugh, big support for the merge. Hurricanehink 22:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Unless it can be improved greatly, it should be merged. Jdorje 02:17, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Doubt it. There's not much info on this as it is, and the impact was minimal. Hurricanehink 19:58, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I merged it almost exactly as it was from the article. Hope no one was opposed. Hurricanehink 02:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Todo

Longer lede. Remove the unnecessary reference to the 1955 AHS there, as well. Copyedit/rewrite the storm history. For example, using the first sentence, the reference provided states the wave did not form offshore. Likely, it formed over Africa, and according to the ref it moved off the coast of Africa. The whole reason for wikilinking dates is for user preferences, so 15th of August is a very bad idea. Tropical wave should be wikilinked, as well. The storm history probably does not need to be split up by each storm, as well. The writing is rather poor, and should be more professional (some convection came together, was declared a 1.5 on the Dvorak Scale, and development increased, which called little change in strength, the possibility ... was possible, etc.). Strike probabilities aren't needed. Are there any more actual preparations? The impact needs more organization. It just goes from thought to thought, with little structure. More detailed damage would be nice. Additionally, is there any aftermath? Hurricanehink (talk) 20:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Rainfall

Its rainfall image and rainfall page have been completed. Thegreatdr (talk) 19:38, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Complete sentences

I think if you sort some information out into more complete sentences the article will look and read better. There are too many "fragment-like" statements in the article. Also the bit about the Dvorak information seems to be a bit overboard on information that leads virtually no where especially since there is no Dvorak article. Altarboy420 (talk) 01:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. I fixed the link about the Dvorak, but it's in need of some more work. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I made minor/mild changes to some grammatical elements of the article. I hope the original authors won't be offended. Altarboy420 (talk) 02:49, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

That's the beauty of this site. It's designed so anyone can edit it and improve on the original version. Keep up the good work, and feel free to edit as much as you see fit. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

In most of the articles on here, the original editors shouldn't be offended, as long as you add information which is sourced with inline references of some sort. Keep in mind there isn't supposed to be the idea of ownership with any of these articles. Thegreatdr (talk) 03:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contribs) 01:11, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Hiya George, I'll be checking this out.

• "Hurricane Debby was the first hurricane to strike the Mexican state of Veracruz since Hurricane Anna in 1956" - This is not sourced later in the article.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "After intensifying into a minimal Category 1 hurricane, Debby made landfall near Tuxpan, Veracruz, in Mexico early on September 3." - You already noted it intensified into a hurricane in the previous sentence, so about change the first part of this sentence to list its peak i.e. "After attaining peak winds of 75 mph..."?

• Good idea--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• " Debby became Tropical Depression Seventeen-E, which moved northwest, but remained poorly organized due to wind shear and dissipated on September 8." - Second comma unnecessary.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "Thousands were forced from their homes as rivers rose, including upwards of 30,000 fleeing for shelter after the Tuxpan River exceeded its bank." - Thousands of horses? Unicorns? Fairies?

• Thousands of bricks for the wall :P --12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "About 8,000 residents of the city of Álamo were rendered homeless." - The top definition for "rendered" is to provide or give a service--positive connotation. A hurricane flooding/destroying your home is not so positive.

• I'm pretty sure it can be used in a negative connotation. The second definition Google lists is: "cause to be or become; make." and gives this example: "the rains rendered his escape impossible"--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "The remaining portion of the wave and reached the Caribbean Sea as a disorganized center of showers." - Missing words.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "During the night of August 29, some cloud banding developed, followed by the formation of low-level center appeared over the Yucatán Peninsula on August 30." - Huh?

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• " Later that day, another reconnaissance flight observed sustained winds of 90 mph (140 km/h) at 1,500 ft (460 m) levels and 80 mph (130 km/h) at the surface of the storm." - Axe "levels"

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "Operationally, the National Hurricane Center treated the storm as a new tropical cyclone, rather than a continuation of Debby." - Ok, but why was it considered the same storm in post analysis? If NHC says, that's good to add.

• NHC does not specify--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "Although the depression was a poorly organized cyclone, the possibility that it could re-intensify into a tropical storm in the small and narrow Gulf of California was possible." - Dash between poorly and organized. Was possible --> existed

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "The depression soon became difficult to track through satellite imagery" - through satellite? How about 'via'?

• Ok--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "Strike probabilities for land were low, however, Brownsville, Texas got a 5% percent chance of Debby passing within 65 mi (105 km) of it." - This seems wholly unnecessary.

• Removed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "In the city of Tuxpan, police, Mexican Army, and the Red Cross were placed on standby." - Just move this "the" before Red Cross and place it in front of "police"

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• "In Poza Rica, downed tree trunks and trashed caused water runoffs to be blocked." - Trashed?

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

• Given the relatively widespread nature of rainfall with the storm, I feel like there should be a bit more impact. Have you sifted through Lexis Nexis and other sites?

That's about all the errors I can see, although a copyedit for flow could be useful. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 01:11, 2 May 2017 (UTC)