This is the documentation page for Module:Storm categories

This template is used to control a multitude of tropical cyclone-related templates: {{storm colour}}, {{storm name}}, {{storm sortkey}}, and {{storm icon}}. It acts as a centralized location for storm categories to avoid discrepancies between templates, allowing for the same ID to be used across all related templates.

Data is located in the following submodules:

This module exports three functions for templates: p.color, p.name, p.sortkey, and p.icon. It also provides p._color, p._name, p._sortkey, and p._icon for use in other modules.

All input IDs are case-insensitive, and all non-alphanumeric characters are stripped.

Provides the color of the given tropical cyclone category code. This comes in the format of their raw hexadecimal code. This function is available as a template at {{storm colour}}.

Code Output
<span style="padding:4px;border:1px solid black;background-color:#{{#invoke:Storm categories|color|depression}}">depression</span> <span style="padding:4px;border:1px solid black;background-color:#Script error: No such module "Storm categories/sandbox".">depression

Provides the name of the given tropical cyclone category code. A optional basin argument can be provided as the second argument in order to slightly tweak the name of the category, if the given category definition supports it. This function is available as a template at {{storm name}}.

Code Interpreted Output
ID Basin
{{#invoke:Storm categories|name|severe}} severe (default) Script error: No such module "Storm categories/sandbox".
{{#invoke:Storm categories|name|spr - cYcL -s TorM}} sprcyclstorm (default) Script error: No such module "Storm categories/sandbox".
{{#invoke:Storm categories|name|cat5}} cat5 (default) Script error: No such module "Storm categories/sandbox".
{{#invoke:Storm categories|name|cat5|ATl}} cat5 ATl Script error: No such module "Storm categories/sandbox".
{{#invoke:Storm categories|name|cat5|WPac}} cat5 WPac Script error: No such module "Storm categories/sandbox".

Sortkey

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The sortkey is a number that aids in sorting categories. Using the sortkey, it is possible to automatically sort a table of tropical cyclones given their category code. Due to the ambiguous nature of sortkeys, tables may be sorted incorrectly if values from other basins were used. For categories that span multiple basins, however, (e.g. depression and storm) they are given the lowest possible sortkeys in order to achieve maximum compatibility.

This sortkey is used in {{storm sortkey}} and {{Tropical cyclone season effects (cyclone)}}, a subtemplate of {{Tropical cyclone season effects}}.

The sortkey format is as follows. Note that not all values between the given ranges were used. The arrangement of these were determined by their positions in the {{Storm colour}} template.

Basin Sortkey range
Global (unused) 90000 to 99999
Atl/EPac/SAtl 80000 to 89999
WPac 60000 to 69999
Nio 50000 to 59999
Aus/Fiji 40000 to 49999
SWio 30000 to 39999
Historical 20000 to 29999
Global 0 to 9999

A demonstration of a sortable table using these sortkeys can be found below. Note that it does not use categories outside of its own basin (in this case, the Atl/EPac/SAtl basin) and the global range.

Category Sortkey Code
cat3 Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|cat3}}
cat1 Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|cat1}}
cat5 Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|cat5}}
cat4 Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|cat4}}
depression Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|depression}}
cat2 Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|cat2}}
Sorting table which uses different basins
Category Sortkey Code
typhoon Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|typhoon}}
potential Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|potential}}
cat5 Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|cat5}}
svrcyclstorm Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|svrcyclstorm}}
unknown Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|unknown}}
supertyphoon Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|supertyphoon}}
niodepression Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported {{#invoke:Storm categories|sortkey|niodepression}}

Icons exist for some Storm categories for presentation purposes. This function is available as a template at {{storm icon}}. p.icon will return wikitext of an image or formatted text.

Full list of available values

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The following table is generated by invoking the demo function of this module. Some IDs are only available as colors or icons because they existed as parameters on old non-module template implementations and cannot be feasibly aliased to a specific tropical cyclone category.

It will show any color errors, including colors which aren't compliant with the minimal Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 AA color standards (see MOS:COLOR for more information). Script error: No such module "Storm categories/sandbox".