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By midnight radar observations showed that Tracy had changed direction and was moving south. During the night winds started to strengthen at Cape Fourcroy on Bathurst Island and by 9am had backed from north northeast to northwest and mean speeds reached 120 kilometres per hour as the cyclone rounded the southwest corner of Bathurst Island.

Cyclone Warning No 15 issued by the Darwin Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre at 10 am CST 24/12/74.
At 9 am CST severe tropical cyclone Tracy was centred 115 km WNW of Darwin and moving south at 4 km/h.
The centre is expected to be 100 km west of Darwin at 9 pm CST today.
Very destructive winds of 120 km/h with gusts to 150 km/h are expected to continue on Bathurst Island today.