Talk:1998 Central Florida tornado outbreak

La Niña

There is no definitive linkage between El Niño/La Niña and this outbreak, or tornado activity in general (see Schaefer, 1999). Evolauxia 23:23, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

This article needs work.

The aid and media attention sections need rewriting. They consist of one third of the article, include too much trivia about the FCC students' activities during and after the events and reads as though the students were the only people to assist the victims. The tone is not encyclopedic at all. I'll try to work on it this weekend if no one has any objections.Scrapbkn (talk) 21:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Please, please do. Mad props to the kids at FCC for whatever they did to help that night, but it's kinda disgusting to see that mess edited into this article -- from the tone, i'm surprised they didn't go all-out to link back to FCC every time they mentioned it, lol. Many groups helped everyone out during that time. Family, friends, and neighbors alike, we all dropped our differences, came together, and did what we could for each other. It's not right to honor one single group like that over everyone else, and that kind of thing isn't what Wikipedia is for anyway. --174.110.208.5 (talk) 13:22, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Dead link

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• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/enso/sls20-13.3.html
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  • In 1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak on 2011-06-08 21:58:48, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 21:58, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Dead link 2

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• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/enso/ensoeducational38.htm
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• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/enso/enso-storminess.html
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• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/wbstorms/3meso.html
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• http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/swat/Cases/980223/case.html
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• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/sep98/Chronology.htm
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• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/svr98b.html
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--JeffGBot (talk) 22:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 26 September 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Moved as an uncontested request with minimal participation. (non-admin closure) --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 19:48, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

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1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak → 1998 Central Florida tornado outbreak – 1: While the Kissimmee tornado was easily the most significant tornado of the outbreak, being the deadliest in Florida's history, it was not the only significant tornado, the outbreak contained 2 other F3 tornadoes, both of which were also deadly. 2: The outbreak is not usually called the Kissimmee tornado outbreak, rather its called either "The Night of the Tornadoes" or "The Central Florida Tornado Outbreak". Quincy Gordon (talk) 12:23, 26 September 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 02:37, 3 October 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 12:02, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Support The Kissimmee F3 was notable, but isn't the only one. StormHunterBryante5467⛈️ 12:01, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Disaster management, WikiProject Severe weather, and WikiProject Weather have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 12:03, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

• Support The National Weather Service refers to the outbreak as the 1998 Central Florida tornado outbreak in 2 separate documents here and here, supporting the move. Furthermore, local news station FOX 35 Orlando referred to the outbreak as the 1998 Central Florida tornado outbreak this in March 2025.

Realjospence (talk) 15:31, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.