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Cyclone Tracy
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Galeforce winds commenced in Darwin around midnight, and increased to a peak after 3am. The last warning was issued at 2.30am before both radio stations ceased transmissions. At 3.05am a peak wind gust of 217 kilometres per hour was recorded at Darwin Airport before the anemometer recording system failed. Between 3.50am and 4.25am the eye passed over the airport after which the wind resumed its previous intensity this time from the southwest. By 6am winds were abating in Darwin. The last radar image before tracking ceased shows the eye overhead. The morning satellite picture shows Tracy overland near Humpty Doo.
Cyclone Warning issued by the Darwin Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre at 2.30 am 25/12/74. Tropical cyclone Tracy was located by radar at 2 am CST 18 km west north west of Darwin moving east south east at 6 km/hr. The eye of the storm is expected to move over Darwin soon. Winds should become lighter to calm for a period up to 1 and a half hr before rapidly strengthening to its previous intensity from the opposite direction. |
