HHW:SEASON
Are you new to the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki? Do you want to learn more about how to make a hypothetical tropical cyclone season here? Well, you have come to the right place! This article is a guide to making your very own tropical cyclone season on this wiki!
Steps
How to make a tropical cyclone season?
There are several ways to make a tropical cyclone season.
- At the top right of the page, hover over the three vertical dots and click on the "Add new page" button. From there, the "Create a new article" box will pop up, asking you what you want to call your season/article (you can also skip this by directly going to Special:CreatePage).
- When choosing an article name, you enter the year you want the season to take place (e.g., a past year such as 2018) and what tropical cyclone basin you want it to take place in (e.g., the East Pacific basin). Enter this information in the "Write your page title here" box.
- You can also decide between a standard page layout or a blank page. The standard layout provides image and video placeholders as well as section headings.
Here are some tropical cyclone basin examples:
- Atlantic (Atlantic hurricane season);
- Eastern and Central Pacific (Pacific hurricane season);
- Western Pacific (Pacific typhoon season);
- Southern Pacific (South Pacific cyclone season);
- South-Western Indian Ocean (South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season);
- Australian region (Australian region cyclone season);
- Northern Indian Ocean (North Indian Ocean cyclone season).
After this step, you are redirected to the season creation page.
How to make tropical cyclone infoboxes?
Most storms on this wiki use the Infobox tropical cyclone small template, although there are others which you can use.
If you're using visual editor, click on the Insert button and then on the Template button. Afterward, type "Infobox hurricane new" and click on Add Template (or alternatively, press the enter button). There, you should fill the appropriate information. If you want to know what each category is for, click on the "i" button.
When you're done, you can just press Insert to add your template.
If you're using source editor or the mobile editor, you can enter this mode and post this on the page, while changing the parameter information.
{{Infobox tropical cyclone small
| Basin = (Insert basin, i.e. Atl, SAtl, EPac, WPac, NIO, SHem, SWI, Aus, or SPac)
| Image = (Any image file)
| Formed = (The storm's formation date)
| Dissipated = (The storm's dissipation date)
| 1-min winds = (The storm's 1-min sustained wind speeds, in knots, used in the Atl and EPac)
| 3-min winds = (The storm's 3-min sustained wind speeds, in knots, used in the NIO)
| 10-min winds = (The storm's 10-min sustained wind speeds, in knots, used in the WPac)
| Pressure = (The storm's pressure)
| Type = (For hypo categories only - if a storm from another basin, use storm type)
| WarningCenter = (For hypo categories only - if a custom basin storm, type the warning center here)
}}
Some of the options you can use for the Type field are listed in this table below. It's very extensive and includes custom TC template values made by other users. Asking their permission first before using their custom values is advised. Template values include:
| Values used for tropical cyclone templates | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basin | Value | Hexadecimal | Category |
| North Indian Ocean | |||
| niodepression | #80ccff | Depression | |
| deepdepression | #5ebaff | Deep depression | |
| cyclstorm | #00faf4 | Cyclonic storm | |
| svrcyclstorm | #ccffff | Severe cyclonic storm | |
| vsvrcyclstorm | #ffffcc | Very severe cyclonic storm | |
| esvrcyclstorm | #ffc140 | Extremely severe cyclonic storm | |
| sprcyclstorm | #ff6060 | Super cyclonic storm | |
| excyclstorm | #ff1493 | Extreme cyclonic storm | |
| Southern Hemisphere | |||
| shemdepression | #5ebaff | Tropical depression | |
| shemtc | #c0c0c0 | Tropical cyclone | |
| shemsvrtc | #ffe775 | Severe tropical cyclone | |
| South-West Indian Ocean | |||
| subdisturbance | #80ccff | Sub-tropical disturbance | |
| swiodisturbance | #80ccff | Tropical disturbance | |
| swsubdep | #5ebaff | Subtropical depression | |
| swiodepression | #5ebaff | Tropical depression | |
| mtstorm | #00faf4 | Moderate tropical storm | |
| swiosts | #ccffff | Severe tropical storm | |
| swiotc | #c0c0c0 | Tropical cyclone | |
| intense | #ffc140 | Intense tropical cyclone | |
| vintense | #ff6060 | Very intense tropical cyclone | |
| Australian Region and South Pacific | |||
| disturbance | #80ccff | Tropical disturbance | |
| spdepression | #5ebaff | Tropical depression | |
| low | #5ebaff | Tropical low | |
| Aus1 | #00faf4 | Category 1 tropical cyclone | |
| Aus2 | #ccffff | Category 2 tropical cyclone | |
| Aus3 | #ffffcc | Category 3 severe tropical cyclone | |
| Aus4 | #ffc140 | Category 4 severe tropical cyclone | |
| Aus5 | #ff6060 | Category 5 severe tropical cyclone | |
| North-West Pacific Ocean | |||
| nwpdepression | #5ebaff | Tropical depression | |
| nwpstorm | #00faf4 | Tropical storm | |
| STS | #ccffff | Severe tropical storm | |
| typhoon | #fdaf9a | Typhoon | |
| hyperphoon | #ff99ff | Hyperphoon | |
| Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale | |||
| potential | #80ccff | Potential tropical cyclone | |
| depression | #5ebaff | Tropical depression | |
| subdepression | #5ebaff | Subtropical depression | |
| MD | #5ebaff | Monsoon depression | |
| storm | #00faf4 | Tropical storm | |
| subtropical | #00faf4 | Subtropical storm | |
| cat1 | #ffffcc | Category 1 tropical cyclone | |
| cat2 | #ffe775 | Category 2 tropical cyclone | |
| cat3 | #ffc140 | Category 3 tropical cyclone | |
| cat4 | #ff8f20 | Category 4 tropical cyclone | |
| cat5 | #ff6060 | Category 5 tropical cyclone | |
| cat6 | #8b0000 | Category 6 tropical cyclone | |
| cat7 | #cc0033 | Category 7 tropical cyclone | |
| cat8 | #cc0066 | Category 8 tropical cyclone | |
| cat9 | #9b30ff | Category 9 tropical cyclone | |
| cat10 | #f9a7b0 | Category 10 tropical cyclone | |
| hycane | #ff99ff | Hyperclone | |
| megacane | #ffcccc | Megacane | |
| infastorm | #00cc33 | Infinite Storm | |
| miniblackhole | #99ccff | Mini Black Hole | |
| New NIO scale | |||
| tpeniotd | #5ebaff | Tropical depression | |
| tpeniots | #00faf4 | Tropical storm | |
| tpenio1 | #ffffcc | Cyclone | |
| tpenio2 | #ffe775 | Moderate cyclone | |
| tpenio3 | #ffc140 | Major cyclone | |
| tpenio4 | #ff8f20 | Major cyclone | |
| tpenio5 | #ff6060 | Super cyclone | |
| Anti Storms | |||
| antidepression | #5ebaff | Tropical Antidepression | |
| antistorm | #00faf4 | Tropical Antistorm | |
| anticat1 | #ffffcc | Category -1 Antihurricane | |
| anticat2 | #ffe775 | Category -2 Antihurricane | |
| anticat3 | #ffc140 | Category -3 Antihurricane | |
| anticat4 | #ff8f20 | Category -4 Antihurricane | |
| anticat5 | #ff6060 | Category -5 Antihurricane | |
| antihycane | #ff99ff | Anti hypercane | |
Examples of some fictional storms
Right now, we're going to be demonstrating a few examples of fictional storms and how they'll show up in your articles. In source mode, we'll use this code here as an example:
==== Hurricane Huko ====
{{Infobox tropical cyclone small
| Basin = EPac
| Image = Fiona 2016.jpg
| Formed = October 25
| Dissipated = October 30
| 1-min winds = 135
| Pressure = 938
}}
The above becomes the following:
Hurricane Huko
| Category 4 hurricane (SSHWS) | |
 | |
| Duration | October 25 – October 30 |
|---|---|
| Peak intensity | 155 mph (250 km/h) (1-min) 938 mbar (hPa) |
This is an example of an Eastern Pacific basin storm. As the storm is not from a fictional basin or has a different category than those used in the SSHWS, we did not use the Type or WarningCenter parameters.
Now we're going to test the following code:
==== Cyclonic Storm Phet-Kurt ====
{{Infobox tropical cyclone small
| Basin = NIO
| Image = 04W.2020.jpg
| Formed = June 6
| Dissipated = June 9
| 3-min winds = 40
| Pressure = 994
}}
The above becomes the following:
Cyclonic Storm Phet-Kurt
| Cyclonic storm (IMD) | |
 | |
| Duration | June 6 – June 9 |
|---|---|
| Peak intensity | 75 km/h (45 mph) (3-min) 994 hPa (mbar) |
As you can see, we used 3-min winds instead of 1-min winds. This is because the basin is the North Indian Ocean, which uses 3-minute sustained winds. It's completely up to you if you want to use them, but most NIO seasons use them. Just like in the previous example, we did not use the Type or WarningCenter parameters.
And now we're going to test the following code:
==== Subtropical Userstorm Percy ====
{{Infobox tropical cyclone small
| Basin = Atl
| Image = Emily 2017-07-31 1555Z.jpg
| Formed = May 23
| Dissipated = May 26
| 1-min winds = 45
| Pressure = 1000
| Type = subuserstorm
}}
The above becomes the following:
Subtropical Userstorm Percy
| Subtropical userstorm (NUC) | |
 | |
| Duration | May 23 – May 26 |
|---|---|
| Peak intensity | 50 mph (85 km/h) (1-min) 1000 mbar (hPa) |
This is an example of a weak, short-lived userstorm. Userstorms are a concept used to designate fictional depressions, storms, and hurricanes that are based on the users of the wiki. In this case, we used the Type parameter as usercanes use a fictional category system. Had we not used that parameter, it would've been marked as a tropical storm, unless we marked it as subtropical.
If we wanted a different weather center to show up, we could've used the WeatherCenter parameter and typed one (for example, "NHC").
Other
- For more help on making season articles, visit this Wikipedia page.
- For help on individual storm articles, visit this Wikipedia page.
- For help on storm watches and warnings, visit this page.
How-to videos
- A guide on making storm tracks (Microsoft Paint)
- A guide on making storm tracks (paint.NET)
- A guide on making an Atlantic hurricane season
- A guide on making seasonal effects
- A guide on making seasonal forecasts
- A guide on making ACE index ratings
- A guide on making timelines (part 1) (part 2)
- A guide on making infoboxes for currently active hurricanes