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Add year per Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Tornado. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:47, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Colfax F5 tornado damage is incorrect.

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While I understand that using the NCEI database is standard among Wikipedian weather editors for determining damage totals, I also know that $75 million is absolutely incorrect. This is yet another example:

Please refer to the Storm Data reports for June 1958 as well as the 1958 year-end reports where a code of 7 is entered for property damage. This would suggest a range of only $5-50M or a $25M “average” which means the $25M total was erroneously added for the second and third counties affected.

If you research further, the June report actually lists a total of $9 million for multiple Wisconsin events, and the annual report simply says “several million.” If higher damage totals were discovered during the remainder of 1958, it certainly would have been listed in the annual report. In addition, two other (more “modern”) sources list a total of $10 million.

While I’ve already said this elsewhere, I am not going to edit any other damage totals. I was corrected, and I’m obviously not a vandal (as a vandal wouldn’t even bring any of this up); however, I really, really wish that someone would acknowledge all these (primarily pre-1996) NCEI issues and change this truly flawed standard that folks have adopted. Dym75 (talk) 15:54, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]