Cyclone Tracy is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on October 18, 2004. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
There is no source for either the claim that this was a Cat 4 on the SSHS or on the Australian scale. All that is included in the article is a windspeed that corresponds to Australian Category 3. I know Tracy is considered to be Aus Cat 4, but that needs asserting. This and this give an assertions of that. The follow-up question is: If it was Category 4 can we say its winds were at least the minimum Cat 4 speed? The anemometer measurement is merely the highest winds directly recorded. The assertion for Cat 4 strength will be from satellite/radar and whilst not directly measured it would have been inferred; like is the case with all TCs. There should be a real estimate for the peak strength out there - the pdf above says 250 km/h for example. If you consider that reliable enough whack it in, that's Cat 4 asserted. If you want a BoM estimate hunt around or email.--Nilfanion (talk) 11:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I live in darwin and my whole family went through Tracy. Wind speeds only got recorded up until the barometer at the airport was ripped away. and Tracy was a cat 4 at that time. most meteorologists have speculated that she got upto a cat 5. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.176.6.133 (talk) 20:14, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Whilst it may be true that the smallest cyclone on record has been broken by Tropical Storm Marco - the advisory notice is not enough to confirm that fact at this stage. I have reverted that edit and suggest that editors await a confirmation before it is returned. If the record being broken is confirmed then the fact will become clear soon enough.--VS talk 03:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I was there that Xmas Eve and it is impossible to forget the massive piles of refuse, the broken buildings, the stunned people, the complete chaos everywhere. And then on top of that the poor buggers get hit by a cyclone! Myles325a (talk) 03:10, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok just a few issues one is the 250km/h claim seems to be very confused as some sources say Wind gust and others say Wind speed, Second issue is Tracy would be at least Cat 3 on the SSHS scale not Cat 1 as what the new info box claims. I will be emailing the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for facts on Tracy in hope to get everything corrected. Bidgee (talk) 00:46, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
I am a little skeptical about the $837 AUD in 1974. I found a source that uses that same number for the insurance payout in 2005 AUD (see page 4). There's a similar figure here [7], though it doesn't say what year. Potapych (talk) 01:04, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
I found this at this source[10]. Would anyone prefer it if the article used this information instead? The most interesting thing about this track is that it indicates Tracy was a Category 3 storm on the SSHS. I can also make a track map directly from this data.
15640 12/21/1974 M= 5 36 SNBR=1740 TRACY XING=0 SSS=3 15641 12/21* 0 0 0 0* 0 0 0 0* 931320 10 990* 961315 35 990* 15642 12/22* 991312 38 990*1041309 43 985*1071307 40 985*1111306 43 985* 15643 12/23*1121304 48 980*1141302 50 976*1161300 50 975*1171299 60 971* 15644 12/24*1191299 70 970*1211302 70 964*1221305 60 956*1241309 110 950* 15645 12/25*1251314 80 968* 0 0 0 0* 0 0 0 0* 0 0 0 0* 15646 HR SRC=jtwc_sh:bom:neumann S/N=1974356S09132
Potapych (talk) 14:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
((editsemiprotected)) In PREPARATIONS: should be "... withstanding ...", not "... with standing ...".
Why on earth are the damage costs in this articles' infobox given in US Dollars only? My particular interest is checking whether Tracy or the 1999 Sydney hailstorm was the most costly, allowing for inflation. The hailstorm article says "The 1999 Sydney hailstorm was the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history". I would have thought Cyclone Tracy was worse? - 220.101 talk\Contribs 04:42, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Just to let people know the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal has released a special issue on Cyclone Tracy. It includes a journal from two forecasters at TCWC Perth & Darwin reanalyzing Tracy's windspeeds and pressure.Jason Rees (talk) 19:42, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
This section has upset a recent triviacleaner in action - it needs to be re-written and sourced and probably reasserted that is is a very valid part of Australian history - regardless of the cultural title: -
'===Cyclone Tracy in popular culture==='
- 'Cyclone Tracy, because of its severity, has entered into the popular culture of Australia in a way that no other meteorological event has ever before, or has since. Probably the most famous work that it has inspired is the song "Santa Never made it into Darwin" composed by Bill Cate[1] and performed by Bill (Cate) and Boyd (Robinson) in 1975 to raise money for the relief and reconstruction efforts. Subsequently the song became so well-known that in 1983 Hoodoo Gurus released "Tojo Never Made it to Darwin", a song comparing the Japanese bombing of Darwin under the command of Hideki Tojo during World War II to the damage done by Cyclone Tracy. The much feared Japanese invasion never happened, but the cyclone that was virtually ignored ended up destroying the city.[2]
In 1986 the Nine Network and PBL created Cyclone Tracy, a period drama mini-series based on the events during the cyclone. Michael Fisher, Ted Roberts, and Leon Saunders wrote the series, and it starred Chris Haywood and Tracy Mann, who played the lead characters of Steve and Connie.
Australian heavy metal band, Cyclone Tracy, took their name from the tropical disaster.
Placed here in agf in the hope that a re-write might not so much offend the sensibilities of the keep or delete sides of the argument SatuSuro 08:28, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
References
After reverting what appeared to be vandalism to Impact section of this article, I noticed that there was conflicting information about how many people had died as a result of the cyclone. On a closer look, I saw that the sources provided for the death toll figures don't actually mention the official death toll. Further, I haven't been able to verify the death toll figure currently presented. An article here puts the official toll at 65. I may update the figure if I can't find a source to verify the 71 deaths figure. Rinkle gorge (talk) 05:04, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
I find the following statement offensive "Despite several warnings the people of Darwin did not evacuate or prepare for the cyclone". My parents prepared the best they could, as did many other families. Not everyone in Darwin was drunk and oblivious like all this sort of stuff seems to imply. Im sick of this rhetoric passing as fact. Same with the assertion that despite warnings nobody evacuated, please provide a reference to an evacuation warning from the authorities. Even people in the BOM office werent prepared for it to hit. I demand an edit! 101.103.25.87 (talk) 13:23, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
It may to true that "all of the Defence Force personnel throughout Australia, along with the entire Royal Australian Air Force's fleet of transport planes, were recalled from holiday leave", but I doubt that they were all "deployed to evacuate civilians from Darwin", particularly the entire defence force personnel strength!Royalcourtier (talk) 06:25, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Cyclone Tracy. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ((Sourcecheck))
).
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 13:07, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Cyclone Tracy. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 03:06, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 3 external links on Cyclone Tracy. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 01:39, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
My memory tells me the first (non-amateur) communication with the rest of Australia was via the PMG (later Telecom Australia and now Telstra) "order wire" at the ABD-6 transmitter building, Blake Street Darwin. I never used it but knew several who did. NTD-8 occupied an ATCO demountable nearby, and I believe its satellite communication was put out of action by "the blow". And had the ABC radio station by then graduated from 5DR to 8DR? To my shame I can't remember and I worked there! Doug butler (talk) 00:34, 8 December 2017 (UTC) Checking my notes, found 5DR became 8DR in 1960. Doug butler (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
The storm was the second-smallest tropical cyclone on record.
This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
when it says the area's affected, Darwin was affected too but the article didn't include it RJ da smart boi (talk) 10:52, 25 September 2019 (UTC)