Cyclone Tracy was a category four or five cyclone, however it's uncertain because the instrument used to measure it, the anemometer, broke. A anemometer is a device for measuring wind speed, and is a common weather station instrument.
How Technology was Used to Lessen the Impact of Cyclone Tracy
Since Cyclone Tracy happened in the 1970's in the Northern Territory, technology had not been fully developed or advanced as it is today. Therefore, it was not used to lessen the impact of the disaster.
Pride Caravelle - destroyed in Cyclone Tracy 1974
Cyclone Tracy was a category four or five cyclone, however it's uncertain because the instrument used to measure it, the anemometer, broke. A anemometer is a device for measuring wind speed, and is a common weather station instrument.
(http://kidlat.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/genmet/instruments/wind.html)
Although, the radio was used to pass information through to Darwin residents about the storms leading up to the cyclone.
Cyclone Tracy was a category four or five cyclone, however it's uncertain because the instrument used to measure it, the anemometer, broke. A anemometer is a device for measuring wind speed, and is a common weather station instrument.