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1. It occurred in the city of Darwin.
2. Tracy hit on Christmas Eve 1974 and continued on Christmas Day.
3. The death toll was 65 (49 on land and 16 at sea)
4. The population of Darwin at the time was approx. 45,000
5. 35,000 people were evacuated prior to the cyclone hitting.
6. $837,000,000 worth or damage.
7. Wind speeds of 217 km/h were registered before equipment was destroyed. It is believed that
wind speeds reached 300 km/h.
8. Tracy was a category 5 cyclone which is the highest category.
9. 70% of homes were totally destroyed or severely damaged.
10. All public services, communications, power, water and sewage were destroyed.
The 35,000 people were evacuated after the cyclone and not before. There was a cyclone warning some weeks prior which never eventuated so when Tracy was coming everybody mostly ignored it as it was Christmas and it would probably fizzle out like the last one.
it was the most compact tropical cyclone on record, with gale-force winds extending only 48 km (30 mi) from the centre. After forming over the Arafura Sea, the storm moved upward and affected the city with Category 4 winds on the Australian cyclone intensity scale and the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, although there is evidence to suggest that it had reached Category 5 when it made landfall. Tracy killed 71 people, caused $837 million in damage (1974 AUD) and destroyed more than 70 percent of Darwin’s buildings. Tracy left homeless more than 20,000 out of the 49,000 inhabitants of the city prior to landfall and required the evacuation of over 30,000 people. Most of Darwin’s population was evacuated to Adelaide, Whyalla, Alice Springs and Sydney, and many never returned to the city. After the storm passed, the city was rebuilt using more modern materials and updated building techniques. Bruce Stannard of The Age stated that Cyclone Tracy was a “disaster of the first magnitude … without parallel in Australia’s history.”
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