Cyclone Tracy - Wikipedia
Tracy is the most compact cyclone or equivalent-strength hurricane on record in the Australian basin and Southern Hemisphere, with gale-force winds extending only 48 kilometres (30 mi) from the centre, and was also the smallest tropical cyclone worldwide until 2008, when Tropical Storm Marco of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season broke the ...
Cyclone Tracy - National Museum of Australia
2024年6月18日 · Cyclone Tracy, which hit Darwin in the small hours of Christmas Day 1974, killed 66 people and devastated 80 per cent of the city. In the days and weeks following the disaster, most of the traumatised population left the city.
List of deaths as a result of Cyclone Tracy - Wikipedia
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia, in December 1974, and killed 66 people. [1]In the cyclone's aftermath, the number of deaths reported varied from 49 to 66, [2] [3] as an official list of deaths was never compiled. [citation needed] There was regular controversy of actual deaths.
Cyclone Tracy hits Darwin - National Museum of Australia
Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974. It was one of the most destructive cyclones ever recorded in Australia. Wind gusts reached 217 kilometres per hour before the anemometer (weather measuring device) was destroyed. A total of 66 people were killed and 145 people were seriously injured because of the cyclone.
On this day in history: Cyclone Tracy - Australian Geographic
2014年12月17日 · Cyclone Tracy was just an unnamed weak tropical low about 700km north-east of Darwin on 10 December when it was first detected. Eleven days later the low developed into a cyclone that wasn’t moving directly towards Darwin. Today it’s widely suggested that an earlier cyclone, Selma, had also left Darwin with a false sense of security.
Cyclone Tracy survivors struggle with trauma 45 years on from …
2019年12月24日 · Cyclone Tracy made landfall in Darwin 45 years ago and was one of Australia's most significant natural disasters. Survivors have reported symptoms of PTSD decades after the event, with many struggling to cope over Christmas. A tropical climatologist has said Darwin could be in the firing line for another devastating Category 4 or 5 storm.
Cyclone Tracy, Darwin | naa.gov.au
The northern Australian city of Darwin was devastated early on Christmas morning 1974 when hit by the tropical weather depression that was given the name Cyclone Tracy. As the eye of the cyclone passed over the city between midnight and 7am on Christmas morning, torrential rain fell and the winds were officially recorded at 217 kilometres per ...
Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy - Bureau of Meteorology
Tropical Cyclone Tracy is arguably the most significant tropical cyclone in Australia's history accounting for 71 lives, the destruction of most of Darwin and profoundly affecting the Australian perspective to the tropical cyclone threat. By world standards, Tracy was a small but intense tropical cyclone at landfall, the radius of gale force ...
Cyclone Tracy - Library & Archives NT
Cyclone Tracy in 1974 was one of Australia’s worst natural disasters and led to its greatest peacetime evacuation and reconstruction effort. It’s the event that put Darwin on the map while nearly wiping it off it.
Cyclone Tracy, NT 1974 | Australian Disasters - AIDR
1974年12月25日 · Cyclone Tracy caused the largest ever evacuation and reconstruction operations in peacetime Australia. A total of 35,362 people (of the approx 47,000 population) were evacuated to southern cities for many months: